Ok, this is a really great place to wake up.
Maryhill State Park is a very lovely resort on the banks of the mighty Columbia. The wind here is always blowing!
We started our morning with a walk
thru the park enjoying the river. Later we noticed this very large barge making it's way up river. Pretty cool.
After a mid-morning breakfast we were off to explore the community of
Maryhill...starting with the winery! With views of Mt Hood and the Columbia river
Maryhill Winery has a superb location.
Built on the existing slope is a 4,000 seat amphitheater right next to the winery and tasting room. I can only imagine how incredible it would be as a concert venue. What a great idea!
To enter the tasting room you walk through this lovely, expansive arbor designed for you to enjoy your lunch featuring their wine. It was a quiet day there and if we had known we may have skipped our late breakfast and enjoyed a meal out there. Note for next time for sure!
This is Max the
Maryhill Wine Dog. He greets you at the entrance and pretty much has the run of the place from there. At different times we saw him inside the tasting room. He pretty much goes where he wills and everyone accommodates him. For Whatever reason my interior shots of the tasting room were all blurry so I have none to post.
All the hills around the community of
Maryhill are filled with the sight and sound of these windmills. At night they dot the sky with their red flashing lights as far as the eye can see on both sides of the river.
On a lonely bluff overlooking the Columbia River and the town of
Maryhill is a full-size replica Stonehenge built by Sam Hill, a road builder, as a memorial to those who died in World War I. Something you just have to see when you are here. Again, it was quiet and peaceful here and we spent a lot of time simply gazing out over the bluff.
This has to be one of my favorite shots. How ironic to be photographing Stonehenge and still those windmills are in every shot.
For Gary the value of a river is in its dams. He loves dams. This is the John Day Dam, a new dam for us. Yahoo! This one is extra special because it has the highest lift navigational lock of any lock in the U.S. at 110 feet. We watched this barge entering the lock.
From Stonehenge we became
infatuated with the quiet little town of
Maryhill tucked between the hillside and the river.
Maryhill has a population of 98 people.
This little church is the prominent structure of
Maryhill and looked so delightful from the hillside we simply had to go find it. What a treasure, and obviously the center of their little community.
I especially fell in love with it's steeple and would cheerfully take the whole building home with me if I could. How lovely it would look on Eagle Ridge West!
Ok, this is a really great place to wake up. Maryhill State Park is a very lovely resort on the banks of the mighty Columbia. The wind here is always blowing!
We started our morning with a walk thru the park enjoying the river. Later we noticed this very large barge making it's way up river. Pretty cool.
After a mid-morning breakfast we were off to explore the community of Maryhill...starting with the winery! With views of Mt Hood and the Columbia river Maryhill Winery has a superb location.
Built on the existing slope is a 4,000 seat amphitheater right next to the winery and tasting room. I can only imagine how incredible it would be as a concert venue. What a great idea!
To enter the tasting room you walk through this lovely, expansive arbor designed for you to enjoy your lunch featuring their wine. It was a quiet day there and if we had known we may have skipped our late breakfast and enjoyed a meal out there. Note for next time for sure!
This is Max the Maryhill Wine Dog. He greets you at the entrance and pretty much has the run of the place from there. At different times we saw him inside the tasting room. He pretty much goes where he wills and everyone accommodates him. For Whatever reason my interior shots of the tasting room were all blurry so I have none to post.
All the hills around the community of Maryhill are filled with the sight and sound of these windmills. At night they dot the sky with their red flashing lights as far as the eye can see on both sides of the river.
On a lonely bluff overlooking the Columbia River and the town of Maryhill is a full-size replica Stonehenge built by Sam Hill, a road builder, as a memorial to those who died in World War I. Something you just have to see when you are here. Again, it was quiet and peaceful here and we spent a lot of time simply gazing out over the bluff.
This has to be one of my favorite shots. How ironic to be photographing Stonehenge and still those windmills are in every shot.
For Gary the value of a river is in its dams. He loves dams. This is the John Day Dam, a new dam for us. Yahoo! This one is extra special because it has the highest lift navigational lock of any lock in the U.S. at 110 feet. We watched this barge entering the lock.
From Stonehenge we became infatuated with the quiet little town of Maryhill tucked between the hillside and the river. Maryhill has a population of 98 people.
This little church is the prominent structure of Maryhill and looked so delightful from the hillside we simply had to go find it. What a treasure, and obviously the center of their little community.
I especially fell in love with it's steeple and would cheerfully take the whole building home with me if I could. How lovely it would look on Eagle Ridge West!
1 comment:
Once again, love your pictures. We had a 'spitting rain' sort of day when we explored this area. But what a beautiful place. I would gladly go again and spend more time there.
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