Jul

20

By Gordon and Debby

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Oregon Scenics


video credit: Greg Duncan, from Vimeo

Jul

20

By Gordon and Debby

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Portland Chinese Garden


video credit: Vaun Raymond, from Vimeo

Apr

16

By Gordon and Debby

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Categories: Gardens, Valley

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Portland Japanese Garden

Lovely Japanese Garden in spacious Washington Park above the city of Portland is really 5 gardens. Here is a nicely done still photo piece by a fellow Vimeo member we have featured there on our Oregon Channel.

Apr

16

By Gordon and Debby

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Sea Lion Caves

Good visuals of the world’s largest Sea Cave on the central Oregon coast near the town of Florence.

Apr

16

By Gordon and Debby

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Beautiful Oregon Coast

Feb

24

By Gordon and Debby

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Oregon on Vimeo

You might also like to see our videos and those of others at our new Vimeo Oregon channel.

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Jan

3

By Gordon and Debby

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More Dillon Falls

Roaring Dillon Falls just south of Bend on Central Oregon’s sometimes rugged and always beautiful Deschutes River.

Sep

3

By Gordon and Debby

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Dillon Falls

a few miles from Bend the Deschutes River plunges through a narrow channel creating turbulence and sound

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tranquil water just above the falls

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here come the falls …

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over the first drop how long has this log been wedged here?

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sitting with the roar at the edge of the rapids

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the chute through lava banks

surrounded by sound, a kind of meditative experience

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once again calm the river enters a meadow below

Aug

26

By Gordon and Debby

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Rafting Deschutes

Whitewater Rafting Excursion on Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. (photoshop rendering)

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Aug

25

By Gordon and Debby

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Hiking the trail past Tumalo Falls

Tumalo Falls is amazing, but so is the trail upstream.  We walked about 2.5 miles and saw another 6 waterfalls.

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Aug

25

By Gordon and Debby

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The Big Eddy – Bend, Oregon

Just a few miles west of downtown Bend is The Big Eddy.  A local and tourist favorite rafting adventure.

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Aug

31

By Gordon and Debby

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Benham Falls

Benham Falls is located on the Deschutes River several miles south of Bend, Oregon.

Mar

16

By Gordon and Debby

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Tranquil Metolius River Scene

A mellow place along the banks of the beautiful Metolius River at the eastern foot of the Cascade Mountains near Bend in Central Oregon. Gordon has a long history with this river and it’s one of our favorite places anywhere.

Jan

17

By Gordon and Debby

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Dramatic Sahalie Falls

Spectacular 120-foot high falls on the upper McKenzie River, in west central Oregon, about an hour from our home. There are scores of beautiful waterfalls in Oregon, where there is of course plenty of rain to nourish them!

Oct

16

By Gordon and Debby

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Smith Rock State Park

Debby at Central Oregon’s dramatic Smith Rock State Park, a popular rock climbing and sightseeing location 40 minutes north of Bend.

Nov

30

By Gordon and Debby

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Picturesque Oregon Coast

The dramatic Oregon coast; this view is taken from near the picturesque Yaquina Head Lighthouse, just north of the harbor town of Newport. It seems views like this are practically around every bend on Highway 101.