If you look really hard you can see Mt. Hoot in the background with Willamette Falls in the foreground. This is really near Oregon City at the end of the Oregon Trail. It's a beautiful falls, but we're a bit prejudice -- we really like the Portland area. We had a great visit, visiting cousins on both sides Dave & Kaylene & kids on my Mom's side, Beth & John & kids & sibs on my Dad's side and my Aunt Sally, Mom's youngest sister, who had just moved to Vancouver, WA. What a good visit!
We had a really good visit with my Aunt Sally and got to help her get a bit settled in her cute, new house in Vancouver. It was fun to go shopping and share meals with her and Dave's family.
This was taken from Bonneville Point just south of Boise. We could barely see some of the really tall buildings downtown from this point. It is said that this is the point where early trappers named the valley "The Trees" or Boise. The desert was pretty dry, but there is beauty in the desert -- even in the Fall.
This picture was also taken at Bonneville Point a bit more east toward Idaho City. There was a storm coming in so there were shadows over the desert.
This is the marker for the Oregon Trail just west of Bonneville Point. After looking at barren desert for so long, early pioneers were very happy to see trees again and Ft. Boise so they could resupply some of their stock before traveling over the Blue Mountains in Oregon.
This marker is on the eastern edge of Boise. The markers were placed in the early 1920s by a gentleman from Oregon who had traveled the Oregon Trail and felt it was being forgotten. He traveled the entire trail and was instrumental in placing markers along the trail.
Sage brush and flowers even in September. We even felt a few raindrops while hiking in this area. The park overlooks the Boise River in east Boise and there is another park just across Hwy 21 from this one. I love looking up landmarks along the Oregon Trail. When you travel across the west you really get a respect for the early pioneers who traveled this route. What we do in an hour (at 60 mph) what they did in 5-6 days! And lots of times the scenery doesn't change much in the hour traveled. We had a good afternoon exploring the desert and looking at the markers and just enjoying the smell of sage and the feel of the desert. We're in Burley now until October 9 when we'll head down to Phoenix for a few weeks. We had a really good visit in Boise with my sisters and Trish & John's families. I have really cool siblings!!!
If you look really hard you can see Mt. Hoot in the background with Willamette Falls in the foreground. This is really near Oregon City at the end of the Oregon Trail. It's a beautiful falls, but we're a bit prejudice -- we really like the Portland area. We had a great visit, visiting cousins on both sides Dave & Kaylene & kids on my Mom's side, Beth & John & kids & sibs on my Dad's side and my Aunt Sally, Mom's youngest sister, who had just moved to Vancouver, WA. What a good visit!
We had a really good visit with my Aunt Sally and got to help her get a bit settled in her cute, new house in Vancouver. It was fun to go shopping and share meals with her and Dave's family.
This was taken from Bonneville Point just south of Boise. We could barely see some of the really tall buildings downtown from this point. It is said that this is the point where early trappers named the valley "The Trees" or Boise. The desert was pretty dry, but there is beauty in the desert -- even in the Fall.
This picture was also taken at Bonneville Point a bit more east toward Idaho City. There was a storm coming in so there were shadows over the desert.
This is the marker for the Oregon Trail just west of Bonneville Point. After looking at barren desert for so long, early pioneers were very happy to see trees again and Ft. Boise so they could resupply some of their stock before traveling over the Blue Mountains in Oregon.
This marker is on the eastern edge of Boise. The markers were placed in the early 1920s by a gentleman from Oregon who had traveled the Oregon Trail and felt it was being forgotten. He traveled the entire trail and was instrumental in placing markers along the trail.
Sage brush and flowers even in September. We even felt a few raindrops while hiking in this area. The park overlooks the Boise River in east Boise and there is another park just across Hwy 21 from this one. I love looking up landmarks along the Oregon Trail. When you travel across the west you really get a respect for the early pioneers who traveled this route. What we do in an hour (at 60 mph) what they did in 5-6 days! And lots of times the scenery doesn't change much in the hour traveled. We had a good afternoon exploring the desert and looking at the markers and just enjoying the smell of sage and the feel of the desert. We're in Burley now until October 9 when we'll head down to Phoenix for a few weeks. We had a really good visit in Boise with my sisters and Trish & John's families. I have really cool siblings!!!
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