We had a wonderful day hiking and hanging out - as usual! We made the drive to the town of Ashland and were one of the first people into Morning Glory restaurant for breakfast. We sat down and our waitperson brought us HOT coffee....mmmmm....I forgot my glasses so had to go out to the truck and get them....they have a new menu and as always there were too many choices - all of them sounding way yummy! As you can see by the picture below I ordered an Omelet...it was filed with this sour cream or probably creme fraiche, spinach, mushrooms, onions....and can you see the chopped up bacon on the top? and killer hashed brown potatoes that tasted like they'd been bathed in butter (no lie!). I also had a muffin that was perfect by itself although they always have jam that tastes home made at the table! Mickey had Coconut Macadamia nut waffle with lemon butter....we had some serious calories that morning!


After breakfast we drove up to Mount Ashland, it was a beautiful morning and along the road up to the ski area we encountered several folks armed with yellow bags picking up trash!!!! Keep OREGON green!!!!! I'm not sure if it was just local folks that lived on that road or what? Later on as we were parked and walking past a locked gate there was soooo much trash in the roads...lots of beer bottles and just garbage that people had obviously left after late night parties...soooo gross....

Below is a tree that I thought was quite beautiful. It must have been girded in some way in it's youth, but continued to grow and became large and lovely!

Here is a picture I took of Mickey -the thick fog was just blowing in for a bit....it was sort of unworldly and ethereal at times...not unlike a white-out!

In this picture below you can see the fog blowing through and the blue sky starting to appear!

We had an awesome day! I added two new lifebirds to my list of birds....and we are continuing our summer hikes by doing one of the Table Rocks tomorrow morning...it should be a perfect day!