Oregon Trip Pictures #7

We made it to Oregon! 

 First stop was the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.  There are 3 units to the park, but we only made it to 2 of them.  First was Sheep Rock.  The Thomas Condon Paleontology and Visitor Center was located here. 

There was also an old ranch, complete with farm house,

 and barns. 

 It was a nice historical perspective of the changes in ranching.

 There were some beautiful views here and we saw several bird species.

 Then it was on to the Painted Hills,  one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon.

 For some reason, all the flowers that were blooming were yellow.

 Lots of variety,

 but all yellow.

 The yellow does make a nice contrast.

 I thought this was interesting.  Looks like since it is so rocky with very little topsoil, they have to improvise with fence posts.  Yet another use for a gabion.  Who knew I could learn so much from watching Monty Don.

 After leaving John Day, we headed to Prineville.  This is where Emily is now working.

 But she is living in Redmond.  We found this cute park and playground. 

 I thought brother M might like this bench. 

And the house E is renting a room in. 

We spent the night here, then one more full day before heading home.