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During the week of July 5-9, 2011, Cary and I were privileged to attend "The Opening", watching quarterback grandson Tyler Matthews (#43 the first day, and #15 on game days) play with 150 of the best high school football players in the United States. The event was held at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. I hope that you enjoy the pictures ... some are better photos than others, but I tried to capture as many kids as I could.
There are approximately 500 photos in these slide shows. They are of the players, the fans, our family and everybody/everything that caught my eye. They are in chronological order. No names are on the pictures, even if I do know who people were.
As time permits, I will also be writing blog posts about my experience as a spectator. Since I still have a lot to learn about football and this is not a sports blog, I'll write some human interest stories as seen through my eyes. That said, Tyler Matthews, YOU ROCK!!!!
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I was so captivated by the slide show I nearly didn't get down to your Oregon Tree post.
Those old signs in the slide show are getting more valuable by the year. I need to know more about the slides please.
I'm glad I got down to the trees though. The information in Trees to Know was fascinating to me.
How lovely to be able to pluck a photo from the family album which fits this week’s theme so well. Having a grandpa who was alogger was the icing on the cake. I had difficulty spotting Hobart but I take your word for it....how on earth did he get there?
Hobart really had a scary job. Those were really tough men who were logged.
Interesting information on the trees. All new to me.
That's a nice photo of your grandparents, though it has me puzzled. I couldn't figure out what your grandmother is doing. and is that really snow and warm weather?
Bob, I hope you got my message, but if not, I have now gathered up all of the McMenamins posts into one spot ... at the very top of my sidebar as a separate page.
Little Nell, Hobart is that tiny man standing on the landing of where the top of the tree is falling from. He climbed up there, cutting down branches as he went along. Amazing.
Patti, that is for sure!
Postcardy, I think that Grandma is just looking over a rock and log ledge. That can very well be a pile of snow and rocks behind them though. Yep, up in these high mountains that happens all the time. I zoomed in on that pile and found some remarkable things!
Good gracious me : those are enormous trees. One reads about the giant fir trees in that part of the world but until you see a photograph - like the one of your grandfather - which gives a sense of scale you don't really appreciate how big they are.
Alan, I know exactly what you mean. They have gotten rid of so much of the old growth and that is very sad to me.
A wonderful post! I love the book about the trees, all the details about them. I wish I had something like that about European trees. I know the basics but not much more.
What I learned on my first visit to Oregon...it's the home of TREES! ....and more trees...the loveliest of trees ever. Great wonderful tree filled post, thanks so much!
Like Bob I was fascinated by the slide. Must have been a spa somewhere. Great tree post for sure.
QMM
Ah yes, the Ponderosa. There used to be one in particular in the Sierra's that I used to climb to. I sit there for hours just looking down the valley. The tree was old and near Donner Pass. I often wondered how old it was and if the survivors had passed beneath it.
The lumber shot is amazing!
Trees like those are now rare, as a are the men who could take them down. A nice collection.
your family pics this week were amazing!! fit to be framed and hung in a museum...
:)~
HUGZ
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