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From our lodge room looking north, the Crater Lake sunrise. 5:53 A.M. Sunday, July 19th. (Click photo to enlarge.)
Archive for September, 2009
Oregon: Day #3 — Crater Lake
September 11, 2009Oregon: Day #2 — Crater Lake Lodge
September 10, 2009(Click here to go to this blog’s home page.)
The Moon Oregon handbook * says about Crater Lake Lodge, “The lodge is situated on the rim south of the Sinnott Overlook and is hewn of indigenous wood and stone. The massive lobby boasts a picture window on the lake and has decor echoing back to its 1915 origins. The stone fireplace is large enough to walk into….” (The lodge is not labeled, but is on the south side of the lake on this map.)
Below are my photos of the interior of Crater Lake Lodge. The lodge’s web site has many more photos (interior and exterior) which do the lodge more justice than my photos do.
Great Hall (Click photo to enlarge.)
At the left is Crater Lake Lodge’s Great Hall. The doors toward the upper right lead to the dining room. Outside the doorway at the upper left is a terrace overlooking Crater Lake. The terrace runs the full length of the lodge, including along the Great Hall and dining room. more…
S’more from West Lake Okoboji
September 7, 2009
The Perfect Football Evening (depending on how you look at it)
September 4, 2009(Click here to go to this blog’s home page.)
Iowa State, 34 --- North Dakota State, 17, September 3, 2009. (Click photo to enlarge.)
I’m mostly clueless about football, so shouldn’t express an opinion about the Iowa State team’s performance last night. However, I do have a strong opinion that it is almost sacrilegious when AC/DC blaring painfully loudly (to the point of speaker distortion) drowns out the sound of the Iowa State fight song.
Early in the game when the band played the fight song (with no AC/DC competing this time), there were only a few people in our section that stood up and clapped. When doing a quick scan, it appeared to be the same throughout most of the stadium. It seems the football environment Iowa State is trying to create is not at all the counterpart of ISU’s basketball Hilton Magic (although, maybe that has changed considerably, too?). more…
Oregon: Day #2 — Bend, Oregon, to Crater Lake Lodge
September 2, 2009(Click here to go to this blog’s home page.)
Bill standing along Highway 138 in Oregon's Pumice Desert. On July 3rd, this Desert Ridge wildland fire was ignited by lightning. (Click photo to enlarge.)
After our July 18th post-rafting lunch in Bend, Oregon, Bill and I headed south to our final destination of the day — Crater Lake. Or, more specifically, Crater Lake Lodge.
Going south on Highway 138 we saw what we soon learned was the Desert Ridge wildland fire. more…
Marion Gunderson Art (and the Farmer's Daughter) 
