Last weekend, we drove to Hood River to visit Lavender Valley. Our main goal was to harvest some lavender (haven't done it before) for making potpurri and relaxing pillows. Unfortunately, when we arrived the lady told us the flowers were not ready for harvest until July. She recommended that we return to the valley in July when all the other fruits are also in season...well, sounds like a good plan and i can't wait to pick cherries again!
We continued our drive to the Lost Lake Park (30min fr the valley) recommended by our friend HW some time back. This is actually the second time we attempt this trail, the first time we went in Nov, it was closed in winter. This time we successfully got into the campsite. There were many trails to choose from and a map to guide us into the park. Of course, we opted for the easy trail which is actually a 3.2miles walk around the lake. The weather and view was beautiful, and you can see in most photos, Mt Hood became our background attraction ;) And Wye still had his tan from Hawaii.
Although it was pretty much shady between the trees, with guided paths most of the way and nice scenery along, this 'easy' trail did take us more than 2hrs to complete. When we were 1/3 of the way, i was beginning to think ....ooo Gosh..this is a very big lake to cover....how about turning back?? But with some encouragement and silly jokes told by Wye we made it around. We were leisurely enjoying the beauty of nature, and sat a few times to rest ( hehe everyone thought i needed to)....and took some silly photos!!
I thought the trip was fun, and good for me. We headed back to Columbia Outlet for some shopping and our day ended with a nice filling dinner back at Wong King's 82nd St...
4 comments:
Nice outing with nice weather. :-)
by the way, for lavender, you no need to drive all the way to Hood river, you can find it here near the place we stay. I went with OH last year to somewhere along shute road across HW26. I can forward you the link when i found it.
Hey TC, that's great. But how about we go there again in July for the fruits too? Adeline should be okay then hopefully, we should go before you leave??
No problem. definately can go together.. thinking of strawberry this month but not sure adeline can go or not. :(
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