Native Tourist
September 14, 2007
** IMPORTED from Debi’s ActiveRain blog **
Sounds like an oxymoron, right? One evening in early fall the family took a trip to Tacoma to ride the new (at the time, anyway) trolley into the Museum District, across the street from the University of Washington,
Tacoma campus. The area has many restaurants, pubs (many with their own micro-brews), shops, and of course museums. I think the Museum of Glass (MOG) is the most photogenic of them all.
The Museum of Glass Hot Shop was fashioned after Tacoma’s past. On the site of the museum a pulp mill once stood. The cone shape is in the form of ‘sawdust burner’ (at least from my memory and for the lack of a better term).
The cone now is home to the museums Hot Shop.
Mary Hill Winery
September 3, 2007
** IMPORTED from Debi’s ActiveRain blog **
On our way home from Wind Surfers Paradise, Hood River Oregon, we headed east and stopped at the Mary Hill Winery south-west of Goldendale Washington. They have a great tasting room with lots of gift items, a wonderful lattice covered patio with grape and flower vines, and a large amphitheatre overlooking the Columbia River. We tasted some of the best wines and purchased 6 bottles of various blends and vintages.
Photo is only a part of the vineyard and a view of the Columbia River with Washington on the left and Oregon on the right.