Thursday, August 5, 2010

Living Ghost Towns

(This is also a long post.. 28 photos)

While we were in Montana, we went camping at Ruby River Reservoir. We spent a day and a half looking for garnets/gold. It was a lot of fun! We all found a lot of garnets, as they were everywhere you looked. The gold was also found, of course not as easily. One of the days we were there, we took a break from looking at the ground and drove a few miles to see some 'living ghost towns' Nevada City and Virginia City. These towns were really cool, and interesting.. But I would have liked them better had they not been living. You think of ghost towns, you don't think of gift shops and ice cream shops. Anyways, they had run down buildings (since it was a ghost town) as well as some fixed up ones that were now restaurants and gift shops. Some of the more run down buildings had their doors open, and you could walk in a few feet, but then were stopped by a fence and could only look around. Others, had glass so you couldn't really see much. Over all, it was a nice place to visit and I'm glad I got the experience. Here's a few of my favorite pictures of the day.

A washing machine..






This is one of my favorites from the day! ^^


This is by far my favorite though. ^^








I LOVED this clock, but it was behind glass so you couldn't get a good picture. The sun was really bright (imagine that) and the glare was awful. I tried to fix it, but this is the best I could do.

There was a candy shop.. and a guy making taffy. imagine that.


They actually hung 5 men in that building, It was a little creepy so I didn't take any pictures inside.


The court house. pretty building. Just wish there weren't so many dang cars everywhere.





Monday, August 2, 2010

FAIL much?

So much has happened since I last posted, I feel bad it's been so long. I went to Montana for a week and a half, and have about a million new photos. On the way back, we picked up my niece Desiraee and had her until today. I also have a bunch of photos from that. This will be a bunch of posts i'm sure.

These first one's are from my grandparent's backyard. My grandpa has all kinds of cool stuff. :)

P.S. This is a LONG post. 26 photos. I hope you enjoy! :)



























Sunday, July 11, 2010

Astoria

On June 27, 2010 my mom asked me to grab my cameras and said, 'Let's go for a drive.' We ended up in Astoria. I asked my mom if she had ever seen the movie, The Goonies she said no. I told her how it was filmed in Astoria and Cannon Beach. We went up and saw the house along with a bunch of other people. Since people live there, we could only take photos outside, and it was kind of awkward taking pictures of their house. Don't mind the order, they're kinda backwards.














Friday, June 11, 2010

craZZZZZZZZZy

June 10, 2010

My baby brother walked across a stage with about 500 of his classmates to receive his high school diploma. My baby brother graduated yesterday. He is an adult, he is not a baby anymore. But he will always be a little boy in my mind. Anyways, I am super proud of him and I know he will go on to do great things!

Here are a few pictures from the day.





Congrats Joey!