Dream House

My current favourite house in Corvallis, on the corner of NW 21st St and Jackson Ave.

Garden Buddies

We've been busy busy busy here and I have many photos to go through and exciting blog posts to write. All I will say now is, 90's cult TV show fans, hold on to your hats, because you are going to LOVE this! Until I get that all together, enjoy some more Corvallis garden snaps.

Bunnies and squiggles

Oregonians

Dino!

Sunday Something-Or-Other - The Final Installment

Lazy title, I know. After coffee and a couple of hours of reading at the downtown Beanery, it was time to head home. We took a roundabout route to explore more gardens and train tracks.

More lovely nature strips 

Chickens! Let it be noted on the record that these guys are eating pizza and breadsticks from our favourite Corvallis pizza joint, American Dream. 

 The chickens' roomies

 Railway puddle ducks

 We wandered down the tracks a bit, to see what was happening in the land of mass transit. We're not sure if this rolling stock has been idling here for a while or if it's just making a brief stopover. Whatever it's up to, it was pretty cool to be able to nose around without being arrested!

I had hoped that a real live train would go past while we were there, but it wasn't to be. 

Back on our side of the tracks, I returned to garden-spotting 

More poultry friends - there were only a couple of chickens out when we first stopped, but as soon as I pulled out the camera, these three ladies came running up to us. Obviously not camera shy! 

 Some more cherry blossoms for you, on the corner of Monroe

Taking a leaf out of the chickens' book, it was American Dream salad for dinner

Still digesting that giant lunch sandwich, we opted for greenery for tea. We were planning to hit the gym tonight, but we ditched that in favour of watching the breaking news and presidential press conference about Osama bin Laden. This blog is a place for photos of food, cats, and leafy mountains, so I won't get into that (unless it was the cats across the street letting off those fireworks earlier...). Big news, anyway.

Sunday Strolls

A lovely Spring day here, perfect for a stroll downtown and some snaps of one of my favourite features of Corvallis - gardens. I took so many photos today that I'm going to split them into a few posts to save your attention spans (you can take a break in between to check for the latest Osama v Obama news). First, the walk downtown. We live about 15 blocks west of the downtown area, and I love it how those 15 blocks pretty much all look like this:

One of my favourite Corvallis houses 

Gardening on the nature strip seems to be the done thing here - most nature strips around here are planted with flowers, or raised beds filled with herbs or vegetables.  

Once again, I love it that you can walk down streets like this and suddenly see train tracks in amongst all the greenery. Also, look at that freaking blue sky!

HELLO FRIEND!!!