Winter wonderland

it's hard to believe that it is in the 90's at home in VA when we are surrounded by snow here at Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood. we decided to detour from our plans and spend the night at this huge old lodge built by the WPA in the 1930's. like the other WPA projects we have visited (the Hoover Dam for instance) it is a technical marvel full of artworks in the middle of a very hostile environment. New government projects would never spend the $$$ on mosaics, hooked rugs, wood carvings, paintings, decorative and functional ironworks. Everywhere you look you see the handiwork of people who probably are now gone. Even the stairposts are carved with a forest creature on top. We still haven't seen the sun today. maybe we read the Twilight series too many times - but during the drive up the mountain through the forests, I kept expecting the vampires to come charging through the forests and attack our car. This morning we stopped in Washoula and toured the Pendleton wool factory. we saw how the fleece comes in bales froTexas, how it gets dyed, carded, spun and then woven. And there was a store outlet at the end so we could save even more money. I'll post photos tomorrow. The laptop and the photo media reader are outside in the snow. None of us wants to brave the elements to go out of the cozy lodge.