Recent content by Ellen Easton

I'm sorry I forgot to tell you---yes that's the one you sent me, Kay. It's a fascinating painting. I love the colors and I even like the paper you used. On the back, I think you said it was Canson. I've never used that brand but I like it. I really enjoy using hot press paper and that's what...

I just love it! It's so beautiful! Today I got yours, Christine. So cheerful and beautifully done. Thank you so much! And another one from Sandra (Sanlyn). Such a fun and excellently done one as well. Thank you, too! I'm going to frame all of these and the other ones from the Exchange too.

Cougars will sleep up in trees so even in daylight you could walk under one without knowing it's there. Believe me, the cougar would know you're there, though. The creek is right on the perimeter of the park, and just a few feet up the creek from us (when I say "us" I mean all who live here)...

PaintBoss: I don't think I'd call it shy. It's probably more like "sly". They're very intelligent and don't ever hurt anyone but they just don't want contact with humans for other reasons. stevenD: He hasn't taken pictures. Or at least he's never mentioned trying. The sightings people...

I'm proud of my kids. I tell people my kids grew up so well not so much because of me but in spite of me. I was raised in such a way that I didn't have healthy role models for parenting so I had to figure out how to raise kids differently and all we had in those days was Dr. Spock. The kids'...

I just had to come share some really interesring information with you all. There's a neighbor here---he's lived in this and other areas of the forest all his life. He's a nurse and his father is a retired vetinarian so he's our go-to for vet stuff. He's also a veterinarian and worked with his...

I received mine from Kay and it's really beautiful. I just love it! I'm not sure but I think it came Saturday---our power went out and we had snow so my daughter didn't get the mail. She was busy fixing me up with a propane heater and food and going around seeing that our other neighbors were...

I'm starting mine tomorrow. Actually, today really, since I'm such a night owl and it's after midnight now.

I haven't actually had my birthday yet. I was thinking it was November. But my Roku TV broke awhile back and I was missing it so much! My son and his wife bought me a brand new one that's Roku but also a Smart TV as an early birthday and Christmas gift. It's a big 50 inch one and has such a...

This is my birthday month so I'm determined to paint a lot to start my year right. I've been busy with other stuff but I haven't been painting much at all. I'm starting a project of making hand-painted small notecards and I think I may be able to consign them in Oakridge but if I'm not able to...

For anyone who might have a little over an hour to watch a documentary on Oregon that's really interesting and pretty, here's a link; At the very beginning where the guy says "welcome to Oregon" you'll see the video show a very green area of dense forest with a whole lot of green moss all...

Christine: Here in Oregon we have everything. Year round ski-ing, a beautiful rugged coastline, rain forests and high desert woods, and lots and lots of water. There are lava fields all around us, hot springs at the McKenzie pass and just east of where I am now on the way to the Santiam pass...

Here's a link (if I did it right) showing what the road up east of where I am. On the other side of Oakridge you find the tunnel and there's a Facebook group that's designated to road conditions and hazards so people who need to travel over to Bend and other areas east and northeast will know...

Well, right here where I live, we're at 1500 feet but the summit is much higher and we have snow-capped mountains all over in the Cascades. They're around 11,000 feet or more. Eugene is at sea level with hills at around 500 feet. Once you go up over the summit from here, you find high desert...

Here's a link to the Audiobook on Amazon. It's free for a trial audiobook of Sasquatch by Meldrum for new subscribers and there's also a 99 cents a month for the first three months if anyone is interested in that. But there are also a couple other books listed at Amazon that are written by...