OREGON A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT

Some friends of ours were nice enough to invite us to visit them in Bend, Oregon.  Bend sits in a basin just east of the Cascade Range. The twin peaks you see in the photo above are volcanic mountains called the Sisters.  In the evening we could sit on the front porch and view the tops of these-a very good way to end a day.   They gave us the "royal tour".  We took in the high desert, the mountains, and the ocean views of Oregon.  So even though this is "Nature Notes of S.E. Minnesota" we thought our blog visitor might like to see what we photographed on our "royal tour" of Oregon.