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i was so happy to be back at my friend jan’s place in cottage grove— the time she so graciously let me spend there during my wildfire evacuation gives it a special place in my heart
i was so excited to visit the turtle sanctuary and dorena lake, well as the row river trail— so much natural beauty and water!
it was pretty hot there for the first few days but then it cooled down— her driveway is all shaded by huge big leaf maple trees so so my vardo didn’t really heat up with the sun shining on it all day
one day we took a drive over to cottage grove lake where there is a beautiful campground run by the us army corps of engineers— i learned that the corps maintains public water sources in the us— there are over 450 COE campgrounds in the us!— all near water!
it turns out there is a COE campground at dorena lake too!— which i walked through many times in 2020!
i made a trip to CG the walmart— which i also became attached to during my evac stay— i got a spiffy battery operated spray bottle so i could mist myself at the farmers market opening since it was in the high 90’s— but it turned out they had a giant mist tunnel you could run or walk through to cool down!— but i did get to use my mist fan at home the next day :)
hope to visit beautiful oregon again this summer!
i think this image of the turtle pond looks like a maxfield parish painting!— finny even found a turtle!
