west trip #4- my other 'flight'

not all my flights were commercial....

linda's husband, dennis, is a pilot and offered to take me on a 'flight seeing' tour (my term)

i knew i should of written it down, but his plane is a 'cherokee' something....being a total girl- i like the teal blue...

when you need gas, you don't fly up to a pump on the side of the runway and fill it up, the gas station comes to you....very cool

i had to seriously fight the inner child in me that wanted to jump in and start pushing buttons while making fighter pilot dog fight noises *giggle*

the adult side in me won with the strong urge of self preservation..

there's mt hood....

and a very cool english garden labyrinth design right off the runway....

and that's it.....we had maintenance issues just after take off and we had to turn around and go back....

hey- it's not a trip for me without a maintenance cancellation :) turned out it was a stuck magneto switch...





so linda and i went to Westport WA so i could see the pacific ocean. we were going to look into a whale watching day tour, but that's during april/may....another day late and dollar short...

here's a shot of Aberdeen....why Aberdeen? that's the city where Kurt Cobain lived. on the sign it said: "welcome to Aberdeen- come as you are" wonder which came first; the sign or Nirvana's song?

we stopped at a grocery store in Aberdeen cause all the mt dew i had drunk that morning wanted back out...

check out the flowers that were for sale in front of the store

a dinner plate dahlia...okay, how touristy do you have to be to take pictures of flowers in front of a grocery store?

i've never seen a dahlia in real life, let alone one this big. it was at least 6"-8" inches across...i know the quilt pattern (i have the acrylic templates) but i've not seen a real dahlia...




another smaller dahlia

then these calla lilies

i didn't know they could be yellow....

then these little flowers that i'm going to totally steal those colors as a color scheme for a quilt....

funny story- in the grocery store this lady had the cutest baby in a sling and the baby was looking at me so i said, "hello peanut, what a pretty kiddo you are!" and the mom got all weird....i told linda that i was gonna to get a tshirt made that says:

I'm not crazy

I'm southern

anywhoo----hey look, it's the pacific ocean!

westport was COLD!

crab traps on the docks

it was just outside a crab processing plant- i'll let your imagination let you imagine the smell....*gag*

cool shot of floats...

charter and commercial fishing boats on the 'floats'

i got fussed out for trying to take a picture of a seagull....long story....

we stopped at a chinese restaurant for a late lunch and this was in the corner...

it was HUGE. it's made from a root ball and the stump of the tree was carved to look like a peacock.

it was like 10ft across....i wonder how they even got it through the door..

then the weirdest looking thing i came across on my trip:

a monkey puzzle tree.....linda said they were a prehistoric tree

their 'branches' are all spikey and called a monkey puzzle cause the monkeys would have to figure out how to climb in them and hold on. even the bark of the trunk was spikey.

they have those balls instead of cones....

just plain weird....like me...

i'll share my trip loot later...