Do you need a recovery day from your extreme winter sports habits [err addictions]? Are you exhausted from playing chicken with reckless drivers on the icy slip-n-slide that constitutes Cascade Lakes Highway this time of year? Have you decided enough is enough with the if-then-else flowchart required to secure a Mt. Bachelor parking pass? Can t even score a vehicle space at Dutchman Flat Sno-park without leaving town at an ungodly midnight hour, accepting the reality of an overflow parking ticket or circling the lot 100 times? Image courtesy @kalebariley Local Kaleb Riley created fun, lo-fi videos of his recent trips worth drooling over during these times.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You re on the verge of breakthroughs. You re ready to explore frontiers, at least in your imagination. You re brave enough to go further and try harder than you ve been able to before. With that in mind, here s a highly apropos idea from Cancerian novelist Tom Robbins. He writes, If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. (I might use the word coax or nudge instead of force in Robbins statement.)
What s the difference and why it matters The real estate market has been a hot topic of conversation in Central Oregon for the last several years, and especially in the last year. There s no shortage of news stories about the market activity and particularly the growth in the median home prices around Central Oregon. When shopping for a home or reading and watching the news, a person will often hear discussion about the median and mean prices when talking about home prices in various areas of the region. This can and usually does result in confusion. Let me break it down.
Lawrence Koppy Two 17th century plague doctors enjoy a quiet evening out in this Covid-inspired oil painting by local Bend artist Lawrence Koppy. A member of Sagebrushers Art Society and Plein Air Painters of Oregon, his work can be viewed at KoppyFineArt.com.
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By K.M. Collins