OK, what's wrong with this picture? Well, not really this picture because it's actually quite a good one, but figuratively speaking....?

Right. It's April and we're still here!

Because all the rain we had,.. really...rain, ....what rain....?..... James couldn't finish Dougs yard yet so we decided to stay another week although the forecast, and the sky, still don't look very promising.

Since we now had some extra time on our hands we took one last road trip on Sunday.

We went to Silverton, about 20 miles south-east of Salem, and visited the Silver Falls State Park. It's the largest state park in Oregon and amongst a gazillion walking, biking and horse trails it has an 8.7 mile trail called the Canyon Trail that runs along the banks of Silver Creek and by ten waterfalls from which the park received it's name.

Four of the falls allow the trail to pass behind them as is the case with the park's most visited one, the South falls, a 177-foot (54 m) cascade that you seen in the pictures.

We braved the rain for about an hour to walk part of the trail and look at 2 of the falls. Because of the wet winter there was a lot of water coming down these beauties.

The walk along the river was beautiful. I'm always amazed by all the moss growing on the trees in this state.

In my continuing hopeful search for spring I found this little patch right outside the RV in the neighbours site. Instant moodlifters!

But the ultimate spring feeling this week was brought on by visiting the local feed store. Looking for flea 'stuff ' for Sadie and Merlin, yep, the first ones are showing up allready, I walked the isles towards the back when hearing the faintest peeps coming from some big feed bins with warmth lamps hanging above them.

Aaaawww!!! Soooo cute!!!

Saturday was crunch day for James at Doug's yard. The weather was somewhat cooperating while they planted most of the front yard and finished up the back yard.

Doug even managed to get some hours, and plants, in!