A beautiful day !

[Mollysmom]

Crazy, but it was a beautiful day here in Florence Oregon !!
I went down to the beach because "they" predicted storms and I wanted to see the ocean when a big storm was blowing in - I left when it was sprinkling and by the time I got to the beach the sun was peaking out from the clouds and within 30 mins it was full sun and I was hot !! I'd bundled up thinking it was going to be cold and stormy, I even had Molly's coat with me, but we didn't need our coats -
Here are a few pictures from our day

The ocean





A chunck of cool driftwood



My litte Adventure Dog !!!





It was a really fun day - I suppose the storms will come, but I sure enjoyed the morning

[Nasoosie]

Just lost my whole, long and involved message while messing with it...no patience to re-write it.

Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures....some day I will share my experience about living in OR on the coast for a good part of the year.....when/if I ever get motivated enough to write the entire thing again! HATE it when things go off to gone-land......so infuriating!

[Lotus]

Trudy,
Sounds as though you are truly enjoying your time! I love the ocean and seeing your pix. The driftwood pix is cool.....it would be interesting to hear what folks "see" in the driftwood. I see a frog, a skull-like face (maybe "ET"), a little animal of some type curled up, an acorn, another face......and I could go on and on. The beaches that I go to are so different and you don't see driftwood such as this type.....or rarely. This is a real treat! Great pix of Molly. Maybe one day I can experience Oregon also!

Becky....Lotus

[avalen]

wow, what cool pictures, and that driftwood, ha! I see a glass topped coffee table

[Cedar518]

great ocean shots and that driftwood is amazing. yepper,.... i'd love to see that as a table base. I'm glad you had a good day!

[snowball]

The ocean is so pretty!! and you really take good pic's of it love that driftwood!! yeppers can see that as a coffee table or how about a lamp? big lamp yes but doable just not in a 5er
Thanks for sharing Trudy
sheila

[Nasoosie]

I see a smiling, happy alien in the driftwood!

I have a redwood burl table made from a 4-6 inch thick slice from a burl (about 3 feet by 4 feet, in the shape of the United States, including FL, TX, and Canada) that I found washed up on the beach in Otis, OR in 1964. I had thought it was a trunk slice until I cleaned it off and planed it down to its beautiful little curly-cue grain things! I will try to get a picture of it sometime and post it.

Again, I LOVE your pictures! And your Molly reminds me a lot of my Molly, although my Molly has really weird fur!

[rvgrammy1953]

Trudy.....You and I have the best places to spend the winter .....I can see that you are so enjoying the shore there as we are here on the Gulf.....Molly looks like she is in her element...........Great photos!!!

[Nasoosie]

I am trying a picture of my burl table from Otis, OR on here. I had to take out my back seat in my Mercury Comet to get this item back home here! It weighed a ton as it was water-logged, and covered with battering marks and sand from the sea. At first, I had thought it was a section from a tree trunk.

The flat side was where the original burl was sawed from a giant redwood tree to free it up. It was then sectioned (sawed) horizontally to eventually be turned into thin slices to glue onto plywood to make coffee tables. A guy I met from Weyerhouse out there told me of this practice, and said I had a mammoth find when that washed up on the shore!

We have used it in the party barn for 40 years as a coffee/card/dice playing table! It needs refinishing now, which I plan to do in the spring or next summer.



Notice how much it looks like a map of the U.S.!! The grain in it doesn't show well on this pic, but it's amazing with all its little curly-cues and patterns common to burls.

[Mollysmom]

Your table is beautiful ! Wow !!!
I'd love to be able to get a big old chunck of driftwood and make something but I don't really have the room here in the RV.
I did see some really cute little creatures made from small pieces of driftwood and I'm going to try to copy that - if I do, I'll post pictures. I've only found 3 small pieces of wood that would work so I'm still on the hunt

[Liz]

Beautiful pictures of the Oregon shore. Love the waves, and Molly sure was enjoying her romp on the beach!