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Thursday, March 5th, 2009

My Friend, My Love, My Joseph

Emiko Koike
Joseph

by Emiko Koike
Newport, OR
I fell in love with Joseph. It’s hard to believe that one can find love within forty-eight hours, but it happened to me. Excitement and adrenaline buzzed rapidly through my veins as black clouds shrouded the sky and waltzed with the roaring thunder. I’m not sure what took my breath away, the [...]



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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Monet Landscape

Sara Fox
Painted Hills

by Sara Fox
Toledo, OR
Before me lie sprawling sets of multicolor hills. Reds, oranges, yellows, purples, and blues, making up the swirling patterns of color in the rock, my eyes were astonished. Even though the weather around me soared at a blistering 115 degrees, inside I sensed a feeling of cool tranquility as I [...]



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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

What lies beyond

Jon Dean
Logsden

by Jon Dean
Newport, OR
None of us knew why we turned left at the road to Beaver Creek. Maybe it was because I yelled “left!” and of course Joe obliged my request with great enthusiasm. Maybe though, it was calling to us, an irresistible magical spell that none of our futile minds and weak willpower could [...]



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Friday, February 20th, 2009

Echo Cemetery

Diane Berry
Echo, OR

by Diane Berry
Echo, OR
While reading through some of the Oregon Stories this afternoon, I read about one writer’s love for their cemetery plot. You don’t usually think of cemeteries as being an attraction or an inspiration, but the Echo Cemetery is such a place. Echo as a town of 700 in Northeastern Oregon [...]



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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Realizing that Oregon is diverse

Erin Farrar
Cape Meares

by Erin Farrar
Portland, OR
I first came to visit Oregon when I was in college at the University of Washington in the late 1970’s. I went up and down the coast numerous times.
It was the coast that first drew me to this lovely state. It took a while for me to figure out that there [...]



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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Watercolor Sunrise

Dave Hayes
Bald Peak

by Dave Hayes
Gaston, OR
Shortly after starting our morning trip to my son’s school, we experienced a view that exemplifies why I have kept my “Heart In Oregon”.
As we rounded the turn at the summit of Bald Peak, we beheld the scene that mother nature had concealed with her curtain of clouds for most of the [...]



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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Another Rainy Twilight

Megan Weiss
Sherwood, Oregon

by Megan Weiss
Sherwood, OR
Living on Parrett Mountain in Sherwood has many pros and few, if any, cons. The pros are that we are perched up high enough to overlook the entire Wilamette Valley, and we’re close enough to the vineyards of Yamhill that we’re surrounded by it in a quick bike ride.
One evening this [...]



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Friday, February 6th, 2009

My Proudest Time To Be An Oregonian

Tyler Anderson
Oregon

by Tyler Anderson
Oregon City, OR
My earliest memory of being in Oregon is growing up with everyday fun– Fishing roaring white waters, training marksmanship, drag racing with crazy uncles, mud bogging with my father. Those times of my life are the most memorable. Growing up in many environments is a hard thing to do when young, [...]



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Friday, February 6th, 2009

Wamic, Oregon

Shelby
Wamic, Oregon

by Shelby
Oregon City, OR
My grandma lives by The Dalles in Wamic, Oregon. There is nothing but rolling hills and flat horizons. In the winter the cold nips at your nose and in the summer the sun warms your body. In the fall the trees are a mixture of golden browns, yellows and [...]



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Thursday, January 29th, 2009

My Beautiful Oregon

Alyssa Holmgren
school

by Alyssa Holmgren
Redland, OR
All I have to do to witness the beauty of Oregon is walk out my front door. Immediately after leaving the house, I step out onto seven acres of land. I live amongst the rolling hills, crackling creeks, and vast trees.
I live in Redland, pretty far out. I’ve lived [...]



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Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Oregon’s summer

Argenis
oregon city

by Argenis
Oregon City, OR
As the sun rises to the east, can’t help but to feel re-freshed
The morning rays hit my face, to a beautiful Oregon day
Out the window, and into my sight
I hear the birds chirping left and right
By and by as time flies, you begin to see great things
You feel the soft wind from [...]



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