July was a jam packed month. Besides San Diego, I also visited Sisters, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. All fun!
I visited friends in Sisters. They took me to the Dee Wright Observatory, a structure built from lava rock. It’s at the summit of the McKenzie Pass in the Willamette National Forest.
Each window in the observatory looks out at a different mountain peak, and there are signs that tell you what you’re looking at.
They also make good photo ops! I don’t remember which Sisters these are. July was a long time ago.
Apparently it’s the North and Middle Sisters! This bronze was cast by students at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Oregon in 1937, before my dad was a student there.
It was also a music weekend. Becky and I played in church. The other musical group was the Renaissance Sisters, who played baroque and renaissance music on soprano, alto, tenor, and bass recorders. Very fine work.
The church has a stunning view behind the altar. Is that Middle Sister, maybe?
Banjo welcomes you to happy hour…
On to Seattle!
Four of the five Adagio Babes met for a reunion. We all met through Sonata Piano Camp from 2000 to 2003, I think. We’re not playing a lot of piano these days, but the friendships last a lifetime.
We played tourists on a beautiful day in Seattle.
Mt. Rainier even put in an appearance.
It was a fabulous weekend. I’m so lucky to have met friends through music!
It’s been a little quiet around here, but I’m still knitting. More on that in the next post. How’s your summer? Or winter, down under?
PDXKnitterati 
Loved loved loved the perfect pic of you in the lava and sister in the background. All the news was joyful because I almost felt like I was there…except I can’t sing and never learned an instrument. So see it was all vicarious. Thank you.
KG
Grand times up there, Michele: you are a social butterfly with loads of friends – lovely !! 🙂
Been a coooooold winter, down here – or maybe it seems like that as one gets older. Sighh … But everyone in Melbourne is looking forward to summer, that’s for sure. One of my reasons for doing so is that it will get Boodie off my lap and make crochet a lot easier !! 😀
Looking forward to your next invention, my small but very talented friend …
Sounds like wonderful weekends.