The thing about Oregon is that

[CreekDog]

it's not gone!!! it's right there!!!



with a remarkable population:



(now unemployed, so sorry :( )


and don't forget the population of the eastern high deserts:

(typical far eastern Oregon family)

also one of only two remaining habitats for an endangered species:


sometimes it pretends to be New Mexico:


or Arizona:


and is a place where many famous movies were filmed:


and it's one of my favorite places. :hi:

[blitzen]

1. Another thing about it...I own 40 acres of it

way down in the SE corner. My username will give you a general idea of the location. Anyway, Go Oregon!

By the way, nice pic of Fort Rock! It is a wonderful place.

[medeak]

54. property taxes suck! n/t

[grantcart]

2. how could you forget this for shame

[Quantess]

34. Another of my favorite movies, The Shining, was also filmed in Oregon.

At the Timberline Lodge.

[hogwyld]

3. Shhhh! it's a big secret!

I love it here, but we don't want the word to get out!

[mac2]

6. I hope you aren't "over loved" like California.

I hear good things about your state. The people and the farms, etc.

[XemaSab]

29. Yes, California is horrible

Nobody should come here. :(

[hogwyld]

31. Actually, a LOT of former Californians have moved here

in recent years. Eventually, we'll get them assimilated. Some however, have grown moldy during the winter, and moved back to the land of eternal summer. Hey, we do have some of the best beer to cope though.

[XemaSab]

4. You forgot to mention that half of it is a whole 'nother state

[CreekDog]

8. ah, the land of my forefathers

:hi:

[roguevalley]

43. yeah. i remember that. :) Note how my town, Central Point, is not

on the map yet all the candidates must come there to schmooze us. :)

I. LOVE. OREGON!

R(ogue) V(alley), an ex-pat Oregonian who hopes to visit first of June.

[Cha]

5. Oregon is so beautiful

and my very own daughter lives there with her fam in Portland..and she's ready to vote for Obama on May 20th.

[SeattleGirl]

7. Oregon is my second home.

Grew up there, and my family still lives there (in the Eugene/Springfield area).

Both my sisters are voting for Obama. Not sure about one of my brothers; haven't asked him about how he's voting. And my other brother is a BushBot, so I'm pretty sure he'll go for McCain in the GE.

[Thrill]

9. Why is there a pic of Mittens in there?

[CreekDog]

10. just a typical family like you would find in Ontario

Ontario, Oregon. :think:

[Arugula Latte]

12. When we moved here we drove across the border at Ontario and stopped for gas.

Promptly jumped out of the car to pump our own gas and were set straight immediately...I frickin' LOVE not pumping gas evah! :bounce:

[GarbagemanLB]

14. When we moved here (from Chicago) via a road trip, we spent our first night in Oregon in Ontario.

Then went through a hellish snow-storm early the next morning where we almost didn't make it. Nothing makes you appreciate nice weather than driving in a full on blizzard and only being able to stay on the road by following the red taillights of a truck in front of you.

[Roxy66]

32. Are you from Ontario? Me too!!!

[swishyfeet]

11. I don't get the 2nd picture...

Is that a remarkable population of old Subarus? or Creek dogs? or...

[housewolf]

13. Gasoline station attendents

By law, you can't pump your own gas here.

[swishyfeet]

19. I'm an Oregonian... wondering about the house/dogs

:)

[housewolf]

24. Oops, sorry!

I guess I wasn't paying very close attention :blush:

[boppers]

15. Houses like that are all over wine country.

I love living in Cascadia!

[CreekDog]

17. Subarus in Oregon?

surely you jest? :dilemma:

[NotThisTime]

52. Almost every other car is a Subaru in Vermont and we love Obama LOL....

[roguevalley]

44. looks like a backroads neighborhood in Ashland. :-D

[Shoelace]

16. we moved here ah....ok, it was about 40 years ago

and never looked back lest we turn to stone. Heck, 40 years ago we were too stoned to know what direction to look! Older and wiser now and loving our state like it's Heaven. :loveya:

Nice pics, here's one more:

[ruby slippers]

18. does it still.....

rain a lot there? Send some to Florida. We need it badly.....

[swishyfeet]

23. I was going to give you a ROTFL

But the pic is kinda scary

[ruby slippers]

26. yeah, I don't know exactly where that one was taken but

my Mother's Day was ruined when we were at my daughter's and my husband's Principal called him and asked if we were home because there was a big fire near where we lived. We panicked as we came through the 1998 fires before and started home about 30 miles away. I called the neighbor and she said the neighborhood was ok but not only was there one but two fires, in two opposite directions about a mile from us each way. And, it was a VERY windy day....

They did get the fires put out and later discovered that one of them was started by three little kids, ages 4, 6 and 6 who were playing with a lighter.

It is supposed to rain Friday but not before we get high winds again. So, no, please no ROFLing....not this week anyway.

[Tinksrival]

20. mmmmmm!!!

I love me some Oregon! Heaven on Earth!

[CreekDog]

25. Mt. Pit, er, McGloughlin?

:shrug:

[roguevalley]

46. Mt. Pitt is in the valley. Only tin horns call it McLoughlin. ;)

[CreekDog]

57. what's a tin horn?

:shrug:

what was wrong with calling it Mt. Pit?

[swishyfeet]

27. Hood from the East?

[Tinksrival]

37. Mt Hood in the rear window

as we head South on 26 going to Sisters.

[roguevalley]

45. you have to drive this state. has everything, rain forest to high

desert. my grandparents went around the world three times but said no place on earth is as wonderful as Oregon. RIP, Rowland and LulaAnne Bishop, residents of Eagle Point, Coquille and Portland all their lives.

[Forkboy]

21. Not to mention home to one kick ass doom band!

Middian

[crankychatter]

22. I wanna go home

sniff

[roguevalley]

48. me too.

[Drunken Irishman]

28. Oregon is Utah in 20 years. Serial.

[quakerboy]

30. Nope. Not there. I just went outside and checked. Its not here

stay away, you don't want to fall off the edge at the border.









Ok. I lied. We are here. You can come over. Just leave your car home, please.

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35. Famous Movies? Animal House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Animal House was filmed at the University of Oregon in Eugene about 4 miles from my home.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOObama

[SeattleGirl]

36. BooYeah!!!!

I love that movie! And I love Oregon!

[Greyskye]

56. Don't forget "Paint Your Wagon"

With Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band! Filmed near Baker City Oregon:




http://www.oregonicons.com/paintyourwagon.htm

[Thothmes]

38. Oregon, still here

watch the History channes series on logging crews (Axmen), filmed in north western Oregon.

[hokies4ever]

39. I don't like the Northwest weather

constantly raining. Even when it's not raining, it's overcast too much.

[hayu_lol]

40. If you want rain...we have that...if you want sunshine, we have that too...

you want old growth forests--ya, we got that. Desert too and then the mountains and valleys and rivers.

Whatever you want, we have it.

(California refugee living in Klamath Falls--65 miles south of Crater Lake. On the southern horizon, we can see Shasta most days--85 miles away)

[hokies4ever]

41. You ought to be a politician

because you're great at promising everything to strangers. :rofl:

[msallied]

62. I dunno about that. The sun is shining awfully brilliantly today...

[here_is_to_hope]

42. Checking in from the Coast, The State of Jefferson....

is alive and well!

[BlooInBloo]

47. I heart pdx.

[Xithras]

49. I reside in California. I LIVE in Oregon.

Much of my family lives in the Newport area, and I'd reside there too if I could get a decent paying job. I own a small software services firm and teach adjunct at a local college, and neither of those ventures would be successful outside of Portland. Sadly, Portland is saturated with software firms.

So I stay here, make the money, and visit my family and my properties (I now own nearly 60 acres on four lots between Newport and Cape Perpetua) when time allows. It's not often enough.

[Greyskye]

50. "Welcome to Oregon. Now Go Home!"

That was the unofficial motto of Oregon when I lived there in the 70's. The subtext was, we welcome your tourist dollars, but please don't come here to live.

I loves me my Oregon!

[insanity]

51. Currently on study abroad in Scotland

But I miss me my Oregon! No matter where I go, I'm always a Pac Northwesterner.

I heard Corvallis is going to be hot today, I'm jealous.

[helderheid]

53. Loved my time living there - and I have a friend in that movie!

:hi:

[Reader Rabbit]

55. You forgot Beervana! Blasphemer!

[Zynx]

58. Apparently Mitt isn't waiting for his next life to populate a planet with his offspring.

Holy crap.

[Arugula Latte]

59. We have big Wood Peckers here ...

because woodpeckers like wood and, um, we have lots of wood here because, uh, there are lots of forests and stuff ...




(No, that is NOT me in the photo.)

[meow mix]

60. mormon family?

just curious..

i know idaho is actually way more mormon than utah is.

[CreekDog]

63. southern Idaho maybe, but Utah is Zion

:think:

[msallied]

61. And I'm going to Seaside for Memorial Day weekend!

And will be stopping off in Canon Beach for some Mo's chowder and Tillamook for some cheese before I head back up to Warshington. I love Oregon.

[depakid]

64. Pure clean water

http://www.wadih-ghsoubi.com/Nature/3/original/Punch%20Bowl%20Falls,%20Eagle%20Creek%20Wilderness%20Area,%20Columbia%20River%20Gorge,Oregon.jpg

The better to make the world's finest ale with!