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It happened without much fanfare. Early last week people were still grumbling about the extended winter/spring weather and then it changed for the better overnight.
The e-mail read: “please don't schedule anything between 1 and 4 p.m.
Too often, as they ease into their septuagenarian years, many a great musician falter. They simply skate by playing as few licks as possible and work hard trying to sing, and too often muffing, the lyrics.
There's something about this town with its marine climate mélange of fog, mist, rain and wind that makes me feel good. It could be an inherited sense of belonging in foul weather delivered genetically by my Welsh and Scottish antecedents.
“Into the box steps The Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams, ” intoned the commentator as the Warner-Pathe newsreel flickered on the movie theater screen, “The Red Sox mighty slugger again wins the American league batting title with a mighty blast into the right-center field stands.”
I watched that smooth swing and the blast with awe and Ted Williams became my first boyhood hero.
At 3,280 feet high, Saddle Mountain, not far outside Seaside, is the highest point in northwest Oregon. On a clear day you can see Astoria to the north, Mt.
Consider me one who wasn't surprised when Phil Knight University (formerly known as the University of Oregon) quarterback Jeremiah Masoli got sacked after yet another run in with the law. Consider me even more shocked that the University’s athletic department didn't try to strike a deal to get him back on the field at some point in his career.
The recent marking of the thirtieth anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens brought back memories and a lot of people saying, “I'll never forget where I was when I heard the news.
Getting carried away about the firm, fast quality of our local singletrack trail system this spring is easy if you're an avid mountain bike rider. But as many people are discovering, being able to go fast and dust-free is but one of the benefits of all this rain.
There’s a line in the song “That’s Life”, made famous by Francis Albert Sinatra, that goes “riding high in April, shot down in May,” that could be rephrased, for local mountain bikers, to go something like: “riding high in April, May and June.”
Let’s go back to the second, and very warm and sunny, weekend in March when a friend and I rode the Maston Allotment loop.
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