"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Showing posts with label freight trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freight trains. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Wordless Wednesday June 6, 2018

2018 Photo Project
Photo #149
 
A quiet afternoon interrupted by
the noisy freight train!
Thanks Sandee for Wordless Wednesday!
And here's the recipe I promised you!
 
Mocha Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup unsalted butter softened
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup unbleached flour
1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch cocoa
2 Tbl instant coffee powder
(If crystallized crush to a powder) 
1/2 tsp salt
1.2 tsp baking soda
1/2- 3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1/2  - 1 cup sliced raw almonds
preheat oven to 350F
cream butter with brown sugar and then white sugar
until completely mixed. Add the egg and vanilla and mix
well again.  Sift together the flour, cocoa, coffee powder,
salt and baking soda. Stir into the creamed  mixture
until well blended. Stir in the almonds and chocolate chips.
Drop rounded teaspoonful's onto parchment paper
covered baking sheets. Flatten the mounds slightly with
the heel of your hands or a rubber spatula dipped in sugar.
Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes .  They are done
when they have puffed up and then subsided a bit to 
have a crackled surface.  Cool the cookies on the paper for
a fewminutes before removing to a wire rack. 
Enjoy!
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Sunday, April 03, 2016

A to Z Challenge April 4, 2016 C is for Challenge and Cats

 
Did you know that there are jobs for cats?
 
 
Seizing Traffic 
 
 
Traffic Ceases a few times each day
in Mt Shasta when the freight trains
come through town.  It's usually a fairly long train and takes about five minutes
to pass by each crossing. I turn off the car and watch the train roll by.....and roll by.
 
 
Graffiti can be an art form...
 
 
 
 
Enjoy your day and I'll see you tomorrow!
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Friday, August 16, 2013

Day 5 Baker City to Lake Oswego, Oregon


We got off to a late start- but finally
headed down the Columbia Gorge-
essentially 300 miles to Lake Oswego-
the air is smoky from all the wildfires
in Idaho and Oregon.



Another visual blight.....
do these really pay for themselves
when all is said and done?
I'm not really sure.


Getting closer....


We must be close-
we're getting a bit of rain!


Ahhhh....finally made it to our second home!
Jeff and Etta are such great friends
we always feel so welcome staying with them!