Life at a "Swell's" pace

Jeff and I took a brief walk to Ralston Park again. We walked there a few days back to view the trees and flowers around the neighborhood. You can view that post here. This walk was a bit more fun, for it was just he and I, with the dogs, to take in the beautiful day. During our walk we noticed a single rose bloom laying on the ground and decided to throw it into the canal and watch it sail down the waterway. It was by sheer luck that when we tossed it in, it landed right-side-up. Maybe that means good luck or something.

As we were watching the rose float down the water, we noticed something over to the right.

Do you see the turkey?

He stood and watched us watching him.

What happened this time last year?

We literally live in a town where the train for Weyerhaeuser goes by at least 15-20 times a day. Across the field from our backyard, is the actually train tracks the trains commute on back and forth. They do get quite annoying at times, but we have started noticing something from spring until the end of summer. The California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) seem to love the tracks and grow wild along the steel beams. It almost makes the train tracks bearable just to see the poppies growing.

The California Poppy got its name because of growing as a wild flower in California. Living in Oregon, it just seems right that it would eventually make its way up north.