Around Elkton, Azalea Drive and Mehl Creek Road

Elkton is a really nice town...

 

...and as very charming place ...

... with great barns

  ...splendid vineyards...

... this one with a Yurt for it's tasting room (very Oregon)

It is hard to tell with a small picture but at the top of this barn you can see ...

... a Plein Air Painter on the road to that Yurt Vineyard

 

We loved the Elkton Bike Station and talked very briefly witrh the owner, a really nice...

 

... and creative young man.

Driving out Mehl Creek Road was really nice until we had to wait while this truck backed into a road to unload some heavy equipment...

... which was really a short wait and then on we went into this tunnel of trees...

... along the Umpqua River...

to another wonderfully green cavern.

I have a lot of pictures of this classic white barn taken from the Elkton RV park across the river but really couldn't resist getting this view and the chair hung on the fence.

I did get a picture of a structure beneath a hill that had been clear cut that I did what my son Matt calls Phainting or the cross between Photography and Painting. All in all it was a very good day.