a hikin' we will go

                                                         arriving at the falls in one piece!

So, I finished baking really early on Sunday and Dave had a brilliant idea to go enjoy the natural beauty of Oregon while we are still here.   He took me out to Oneonta Falls (don't ask us how to pronounce it for no one here is quite sure!) about 30 minutes away from downtown Portland.  No matter how it is pronounced, it is one of the most beautiful places I have been to yet.  Set deep in a gorge, with walls of rock that are covered in a gorgeous green moss, we hiked over a huge log jam (a bit unnerving) and back through a stream (waist deep at times of freezing cold mountain run off) to the waterfall.  It was really quite breath taking... as was the icy water, but refreshing after the 100 degree weather we have been sweating through the past couppla days!                                                           

the log jam we precariously climbed over!