FIGS

So my new favorite fruits are figs... they are sooo tasty and delicious. It's like a melony flavor but with the perfect texture of seeds and skin (I know I like odd things!). Mom got a fig plant for the deck... supposedly it's supposed to grow figgies! I sure hope it does. But for now it's just got the fabulous fig leaves...

Bluebabes

They aren't quite ready yet! But hopefully just a few more days...

Mom's New Toy

It's a solar powered gargoyle! I haven't seen him shining yet because it's been so rainy. Here he is perched right outside the bathroom window. How classy.

Passion

It's been so cloudy out lately my camera can't even take a good picture! Well that and I am skeptical that maybe it was dropped on it's head a few times too many. Mom's deck flowers are just starting to blossom, including her new passion flower. This picture is one from a couple years ago. I took a picture of the newest blossom, but I am too lazy to upload it to my computer. When the sun comes out I'm going try and get a picture of the pomegranate (!!!) that is flowering as well. Right now we are having a big thunder storm... wooh. Hopefully the flowers will survive :-p

LavaTube

This picture is from Natural Bridge, Rogue River. We went during a pretty high water time, and so the natural bridge was more of a water tunnel. You can see the hole where the water goes through and during the drier season all the water goes through the tunnel. It's kind of hard to see, but the tunnel is a lavatube. This is just a couple of miles down the road from the Rogue River Gorge.

Sun?!

The sun came out for a bit today. Wooh! It's been so long...! But now I am ready for bed and, it's still light outside? Really? Do I have to stay up until it gets dark? I guess I could just be like Robin and "sleep" from 12 am until... um... now? Well not even now, she shows no signs of getting up in the near future. I didn't think that was humanly possible but apparently it is! Finally, here is a picture of the infamous holey rock. So neat!

Happy Birthday Mommy

Saturday was Mom's birthday and we celebrated with broccoli pizza (well I did at least! no one else will eat it, hmph) and an itsy bitsy chocolate cake. She was happy with her pound of chocolate from Trader Joes and the Ipod Shuffle Kathy gave her. Haha Mom is wearing earbuds in this picture, quite funny if you ask me! On another note... I'm not sure if it's all this Pacific Northwest weather or what, but my camera seems to be getting grainier and grainier by the day... what's wrong!?

Going Swimming

Coby loves his new pool. Especially because he doesn't even have to fill it up himself! It filled up completely with rain water this week, and first thing he does is plop himself right in. Better than KK's mucky yucky pond... and the mud puddle at the dog park!

No Comment!?

One day I came across this picture on the Hampshire website. It's at graduation from right to left Lin, me, Mo and Rachel. The bag kid ended up sitting next to me!

Moo?

A few weeks ago my family went to Florida to visit my Grandparents. We got to say hi to some new friends at the zoo too! It was a fun trip, my favorite were the batty bats.

Coby's Balls

Mom has been trying to get a picture of Coby sporting 3 tennis balls in his mouth. We finally succeeded last night! He's sad because we pretty much had to hold him down to get the picture. But this is typical Coby, three tennis balls and he usually goes after the other ones when his mouth is already full. What a goofball...

Valley

I love this picture of Ashland! Another one from the hike up to the holey rock. I'm going to find something new to post about soon, I promise. These are just some of my favorite pics for the moment...

Coby's New Friends

Last night a couple of Robin's friends came up from Florida with 4 new best friends for Coby. They just stayed one night but he loved them so much! I think he cried when they left. Poor Coby, maybe he'll make more friends at the dog park this week.

The Holey Rock

It was just a short hike up the grassy rattlesnake hill behind Jared's grandparents' to get to the holey rock. The rock face looked just like his grandfather, it was kind of amazing and kind of creepy! The body was sandstone and full of holes, and his fingers were coming out the sides of the hill. Not quite capturable in pictures, but here is the profile of the rock face looking over Ashland and part of the Rogue Valley. Abby and I sat on his head and enjoyed the view :)

Growed

Little Coby is all grown up now! He is almost a year old and lots of fun. He likes to dance and chew shoes. Here he is on a hike to the Indian Council Caves in Barkhamsted, CT. He enjoys harassing Loco and loves to hang out with his brother Toby. More pictures to come!

Rafting down the TID

During my recent trip to Oregon, J and I bought a cute little inflatable raft and took it down the TID ditch in his Grandparent's backyard. We traveled past the brush and hopped... well swam under? the fence to keep going. When we got to a point where we couldn't go any further, we thought we might get in trouble by the TID police. Turns out it was just a professor and his class! It was a wonderfully warm afternoon and we enjoyed simply floating downstream, past the cows and blackberry bushes. Too bad I forgot my sandals at the first fence and had to walk most of the way barefoot along dead grassy pokey things! That is until Jared walked ahead to rescue my borrowed flipflops! Here's a picture of the ditch at sunset. We were walking back from a holey rock on the hill...