Sunday, September 7, 2014
THIS SAY'S IT ALL
Off of highway 140 is a dirt road that leads to Junipers. This obviously is the sign that helps find the dirt road. Junipers is an 8000 acre working cattle ranch with a lake, and a campground right smack dab in the middle of it. It is almost on the Oregon, California, Nevada border. The town, which is 14 miles from the ranch, has a population of 2300 and is the County Seat for Lake County. Elevation 5000 feet.
HERE KITTY KITTY, TASTY CATFISH
If you stare real hard, you can see the campground across the lake and to the left of this stunning fisherman.
We pan fried this cats fillets in butter, garlic, and panko and had him on crackers as an snack before din din.
IT'S A FISHING PARTY
We were fortunate, once again, to hook (no pun intended) up with good friends Andy and Linda Clarkson. During this day, I caught 1 small cat, and Andy and Linda caught 5 nice trout.
WORKING COWBOYS. NO RHINESTONE BOOTS HERE.
Yep, this is the real deal. Five cowboys herding hundreds of black angus cattle. It's fun to watch them work, and it looks like a lot of fun, just riding around on horseback, following these slow moving bovines.
GET ALONG LITTLE DOOGIE
Another one of the real cowboys. They show up early in the morning in their Ram pickups, towing horse trailers. In no time, they are mounted and herding cattle. This guy had to go back for a stray.
STANDING GUARD
There is a whole flock (or is it a covey) of antelope roaming the ranch. This guy must be on guard duty, standing watch over the others.
WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLAY
Just a normal morning shot out of the windshield. Our camp is on an 8000 acre working cattle ranch. Wildlife abounds. Besides at least a million black angus cattle, there are coyotes wondering through the herds, Pronghorn antelope, squirrels, and birds of every feather including hawks everywhere.
A NICE TROUT FOR A CHUBBY KRAUT.
This lake, Juniper's was stocked over 30 years ago, and never since. These guys are all naturally bred in this water for many, many generations. All we have caught is rainbow trout and catfish here. Both are very tasty.
FISHING IS PRETTY GOOD AT JUNIPER'S
That's my girl, the fish snagger at our fishin hole. She's got a good looking catfish, and a couple of rainbow trout on her stringer. She's a good fishing buddy and a great fish cleaner.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
LIBATIONS AFTER VISITING THE BREWERY
One day we met up with Andy and Linda Clarkson at the Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon. We tasted some of everything there, then came here to the Cascade Brew house to quench our terrible thirsts.
BARRY AND BARNEY THE BLUE JAYS
These guys acted like a couple of turkeys instead of Stellar Blue Jays. They showed up about 17 seconds after I filled and hung the bird feeder. Instead of sitting on the bird feeder and properly pecking at the seed, they would scoop the food out of the feeder and scatter it all over the ground, then peck it off the ground like a couple of turkeys.
HAIL YES, IT GETS COLD
The weather here in the Cascades has been lovely days and nights. Days typically in the 80's and sunny, and nights in the 50's. The wind has usually been a mild breeze, and the rain a few drops late afternoon.
However, twice, out of nowhere, came the hail, about marble size, and lasted longer than other hail storms I have witnessed. This one lasted about 1 1/2 hours, and this picture was taken about two minutes into it. I could not have ventured outside much later than this.
LAKE PAULINA
South East of Bend Oregon, lies this beautiful extinct volcano. The craters formed by the explosion formed the two lakes of Paulina and Eastlake.
This area is quite a recreational area, year round. Boating, hiking, and fishing in the summer, and skiing, snowmobiling, and other winter sports in the winter.
VOLCANIC RIM OF MT. PAULINA
Paulina Mountain was formed by a volcano. This is the rim as seen from the top. It drops down to form the two lakes of Paulina and Eastlake. From this vantage point, Paulina would be in the left of the ridge, and Eastlake would be on the right.
THE TWIN FALLS OF PAULINA
Drain off from Lake Paulina works it's way down the volcanic banks of the mountain to form these beautiful falls.
LUCKY FORTUNE CHINESE RESTAURANT
We have been blessed with fiends where ever we have gone this year. On this occasion, we were in La Pine, Oregon and hooked up with friends who also happened to be in the area for a Chinese repast. From left to right around the table, Diane, Nita, Ken, Linda, Andy, Sandy and Roger.
EL CAMPO BREHM AT SUNRIVER, OR,
This will be our home for 3 weeks. Beautiful scenery with Stellar Blue Jays, hummingbirds, red winged black birds, hawks, and a variety of other birds. Also deer, big bushy gray squirrels,and chipmunks.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS FROM THE OREGON COAST
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