Eagle Crest Resort

We are spending a week at Eagle Crest Resort in central Oregon. Here we had a condo overlooking the river with a deck surrounded by pine trees. We spent our time reading, playing tennis, and walking. The weather was nice with cool evenings and warm days (80 degrees).
As for the tennis there were no big winners. We did play about every day at 9 AM. The only problem was that the sprinklers for the lawn would hit the court. The watering was done early in the morning but the courts were still wet. Marilyn did most of the reading and I did most of the walking. There is a nice path by the river and then up in the residential area. It makes for about 3-4 miles if you walk the complete route. Usually you can see deer and other wildlife. I didn’t see much for wildlife this year. There was a posting that a cougar had been seen in the area but I didn’t see any. Maybe that is the reason I haven’t seen the deer.
Wednesday we went into Redmond for music in the park. This week was Hawaiian dancing with mostly young boys and girls but also some older dancers. It was a nice warm-up for our upcoming trip to Hawaii. It was a much smaller group of listener than we see at the concerts at the park in Albany but here the performers are local and Albany tries to bring in some known performers. There was food to buy but we took are sandwich and soda and enjoyed the dancing.
On Thursday we made our trip to the High Desert Museum that we make each year. Always enjoy the raptors and their demo. Most of the birds have been injured or raised by humans so they would not survive in the wild. The raven was blind. There were two new cats in the exhibit that had been raised by humans and in the case of the lynx abandoned. The lynx was found in a state park in California. The animal was starving and when the caught it to see what the problem was they found it had been declawed and neutered, obviously raised by a human. I will have pictures out on the web when I return home.