On day two we left our campground in Prineville and drove to Bend, Oregon then to the High Desert Museum...
... where they had Wiley Coyote guarding the entrance...
,,, near this pool with a metal trout...
... and several real trout.
Just inside the door was an antique Ford...
... a great quilt exhibit ...
... and a huge Lynx and I do mean huge only slightly smaller that a cougar.
The museum had many dioramas ...
...each one with real examples of days gone by from tents ...
... to everyday items.
They even had an old time Plein Air painter exhibit...
... a gold mining setup ...
... and an old time bar.
I really liked the old forest ranger truck...
... and the woven tee-pee.
This was a tiny diorama with the characters only a few inches tall depicting cowboys around a campfire.
There were also some natural displays with lizards...
... scorpions ...
... and a Gila Monster complete with an interesting fact...
... telling how the saliva from these large lizards can help people with diabetes.
This was one of the pictures of wild horses saved by the High Desert museum named after my sweet grand-daughter.
There were more dioramas ...
... interesting and ...
informative about life in the high desert...
... and the Native Americans who shared this land.
They also depicted the fishermen of the Columbia River...
... even a tank aquarium with a huge Sturgeon.
There was native dress...
... and views of the interior of prairie homes.
On the way out I got nice shot of this chipmunk (correction, it is a Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel) thank you for the correction ...
... and some beautiful Lupine.
Next we drove to Fort Rock for a look at this spectacular geological feature shaped like a huge 3-d crescent...
... and the ghost town preserved as a museum...
... and a great old church.
You can click on this picture and read a little about Fort Rock and a picture of the ancient sandals found there.
On the way home we stopped at a state park to take a few pictures of the huge stumps...
... and I added a pine cone ...
... noticed the burned tree limb or root - not sure which.
I did get a shot through the fire ravaged trees, the lake and on to the magnificent mountains in the distance. The Cascade range is a series of Volcanic mountains from British Columbia to California.
"The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean. All of the known historic eruptions in the contiguous United States have been from Cascade volcanoes. The two most recent were Lassen Peak in 1914 to 1921 and a major eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980."
Quote of the Day ~ "If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?" ~ Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931
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Hi, just wanted to let you know that the picture of a "chipmunk" is actually a Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel. While we also have chipmunks in the area they are smaller, have a triangular head and stripes next to the eyes. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/squirrels/#/golden-mantled-ground-squirrel_5888_600x450.jpg
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_species_182_15_22.html
It's a common mistake for visitors to the Central Oregon area.
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