On Meeting My Waterloo (and links to other Linn County posts)

Besides the beauty of the foothills and mountains of this land I love so very much.

Besides its forests, woodlands and wilderness areas.

Besides the best drive in, numerous museums and a whole lot of covered bridges.

Besides its waterfalls and lakes,

well I love it here because of the many rivers and creeks which one finds within its borders....

I just can't get enough of this one...the South Santiam river.

I dream of what it looked like before the dams came.

I dream of how our family lived back then.

How the moods of the river might have affected them...

how they felt when they looked out on its beautiful waters on sunny, warm days such as this one.

I will never know the river such as they did,

in the time before the waters were impounded.

But here and there I catch glimpses of what it might have been like then,

in that simpler time when one was so connected to the land and its rivers and creeks.

A hard life, with less technology and with its share of challenges and losses,

but I think a good life...

And with that I introduce you to Waterloo Falls...

so you can say,

as I now can,

that you have met your 'waterloo'.

 

On this Monday,

I slept a long time

(after watching my dad while my sibling was out of town this weekend)

and then I spent time researching the land and history of our family and their neighbors.

Right now I am watching The Bible on the History Channel with mixed feelings,

but mostly happy with the presentation thus far.

Tomorrow I shall be 'greening' up our place in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day.

What did you do?

 

Blessings,

Aimee

 

Other Linn County posts

(I am beginning to think I need to make it a category LOL. This is mostly for me because my labels and search function are not 100% accurate right now for some reason.)

I will updating this as I add more photos from Linn County taken over the years...well at least the ones I have taken since getting my first digital camera.

 

Brownsville/Crawfordsville area:

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-trip-into-our-past-brownsville-beyond.html

(Brownsville was one of the locations for the film Stand By Me; the town also has an incredible museum. Nearby Crawfordsville has a historical covered bridge and is part of a scenic byway that runs over the Cascade Mountains to Sisters in central Oregon)

 

Lebanon/Sweet Home/Cascadia area:

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2009/03/five-years-ago-today.html

(including over the Cascades to Sisters)

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2010/09/of-ancestral-places-home-sweet-home.html

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2012/02/of-home-sweet-sweet-home.html

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2012/02/trip-back-in-time-east-linn-museum.html

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-in-land-of-linn.html

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2012/10/back-to-west-central-oregon.html

(including over the Cascades to Sisters)

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2013/03/when-meeting-my-waterloo-involved-fall.html

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2013/03/and-part-two.html

(Murals, waterfalls, another great museum, covered bridges and other historical buidings, reservoirs, gateway to mountain, river and wilderness adventures to the east and northeast, two scenic byways)

 

 Scio, Crabtree, Jordan area:

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-land-of-linn.html

(History and peaceful landscapes)

 

 Shedd Area/Thompson Mills area:

http://aimeeonthemountainside.blogspot.com/2011/01/look-back-at-2010-bit-more-of-summer-in.html

 (Fascinating historical mill with Queen Anne home)

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Notes:

 I am intending to catch up on posts I have talked about. I ask patience as sometimes our connection is bad and my hubby has needed the laptop lately for work related education.