Weekly Photo Challenge: Ready

Since WordPress was a little late posting the Weekly Photo Challenge, I guess we are all “Ready” for it.  Here is my take on the weekly Theme.  Hope you enjoy the show.  As always, scroll down for larger photographs.

Watermelon….definitely ready to eat. Photo taken on a hot summer day last year!

Chili is ready for eating. Photo taken in Canby, Oregon at a chili cookoff contest.

Flowers are Ready to be sold. Photo taken last year at Swan Island Dahlias, in Canby, Oregon, USA.

Coffee is ready to consumption. Photo taken in Astoria, Oregon, USA.

Crates ready to be used or shipped! I love the lines and shapes in this image.

Here are a few of my favorite entries for this week’s challenge.

• Chris Donner, Mystery Writer
• Right In Front of Me
• Pictures are Louder than Words
• Life As It Comes
• A Year in the Life
• Travel With Me
• Polly’s Place
• Light Reading
• 3rd Culture Children
• Heartfelt Images
• Fenland Photos
• Mike Hardisty Photography
• f-stop fantasy
• Bullfrogs Symposium
• Life By Magdelene
• Northern Narratives

Share Your World: Week 8

Here are the four Share Your World questions for this week.  I hope you have some fun playing along.  I’m so thrilled some of you participated last week few weeks.  It sure was fun learning about all of us.

1. What is one of your quirky traits?
2. If you could be given ANY gift what would it be?
3. What chore do you absolutely hate doing?
4. If you could play any sport professionally what would it be?

See my answers below.

NOTE:  Click link to easily find Other Share Your World Week blog entries.

I will be putting out four different questions each week for you to answer.  There are two ways which you can participate

1. Create a  Share Your World  post.  Then post the link to your blog in my comment box or leave your answers in the comments box of my blog.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Share Your World” tag.
3. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly reminders.

 

I will state the questions first and then post my answers in the bottom part of my blog.  I’ve also created a banner if you would like one for your blog.

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Here are my answers:

We Finally made it to Astoria, Oregon

We finally made it to Astoria, Oregon for our anniversary this past weekend.  The day we left, Chris was a little quiet in the morning, I later found out she was watching the weather on her computer because it was snowing on the Coastal Range Mountains that we had to drive through to get to the Astoria.

So at 10 in the morning we packed up our car and two pugs and started out for our two hour drive to Astoria.  Once I started to see obviously old plowed snow on the side of the roads, Chris said that it might be snowing at the highest points on the mountain pass.  I have always been terrified to drive in snow, which was not always convenient when we lived in Denver, Colorado where it does snow a lot in the winter.  So I wasn’t too thrilled about driving in snow again.

The rain did turn to snow at one point.  The Douglas Fir trees were absolutely gorgeous.  Sorry we didn’t stop and get photos, but it was wet and cold and our cameras were in the trunk.  Driving conditions weren’t bad at all.  It was only about 20 minutes of slow driving in the snow and then I was back on wet rainy roads.

When we got to Astoria we went to our favorite BRIDGEwater Bistro and just watched the rain came down in waves.  The following photos are just a few I took once we got into our hotel.  We stayed at Cannery Pier Hotel, which is built out on a pier on the Columbia River, immediately to the northern of the 4.1 mile (6.6 meter) Astoria Megler bridge.  So we had front row seats to all the large cargo ships that go to Portland down the Columbia River.   I’ll post more later in future blogs.

The first photo I’ve posted before and and it shows our hotel and a large cargo ship.  Please scroll down for enlarged photos.

View as you walk into our room.

View from the bathroom of the claw foot tub. There was also a separate shower. Talk about elegant.

This hotel is pet friendly. They provided a dog bed (which was huge and scared our little pugs), they also had the a dog toy for each of our girls, chewies and treats and three dog bowls. Amazing!

View of the bridge outside our room. Sneak peak of other photos to come in later posts.

Photograph taken from the Bistro we just adore dining at.