Awake: 7:40am Temp 57 sleep 6+21 overcast & windy overnight @ Silverton, OR.
The Campground office was closed yesterday late afternoon when we arrived, so after our breakfast this morning, we drove over & paid our camping fee + signed up for another night.
Then we drove into the town of Silverton to start our touring; 1st the Oregon Garden (weather not suitable for outside excursion today). And on the same road, the Gordon House: the only home open to the public in the Pacific Northwest designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. I took several pictures & we read all about how this house became located in this garden area. I also found out that it was Frank Lloyd Wright, who in 1935, started having floor heat in private homes by embedding hot water pipes in the floor. Also, the Oregon Garden Resort opened in 2008 complete with spa & wedding facilities. There was much more to see in the garden but again, weather was not suitable.
Next we headed downtown & followed our map for a Mural Tour. (16) in all, we missed only one; the murals tell the tales of this town during the early days & continue toward the present & future. We liked this town of 7,414 people; downtown was active with many stores & lots of classic homes that were well preserved.
A mural sample: the "Largest Camera in the World" was created around 1900 in Chicago. Officials of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Co. used it to take a single, detailed portrait of their new luxury train.
Next we motored to another smaller town, Mt. Angel, only (4) miles west with a population of: 3,121 residents. Here we thought we'd get to see the Glockenspiel do its thing but our timing was not so good. We did drive up the hill top & visited the Mount Angel Abbey, a community of Benedictine monks founded in 1882 by the Abbey of Engelberg in central Switzerland. We visited the church & bookstore & would have walked the lovely grounds if the weather had been more conducive, extremely windy.
Before we left town, Kathy & I agreed to buy some sausage & bacon from a local store.
Dinner: Tuna fish, broccoli, brown rice with golden raisins & a mixed salad.
Tonight we caught up on some political channels & then watched: "The Palm Beach Story" with Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallee, Mary Astor, Sig Arno, Robert Dudley, etc. Hilarious screwball comedy with Claudette running away from hubby McCrea, landing in Palm Beach with nutty millionaires Astor and her bumbling brother Vallee; 1942. Beware....comedy has changed a lot in over (60) yrs, so this movie may not get you laughing as much today as it did yrs ago.
Lights out: 12:23am.
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