Pilgrimage 2013: Lincoln City and Tillamook, Oregon June 19-20, 2013

Our next stop is Lincoln City. It's a delightful town and I'd say we saw the most photographed driftwood in Oregon, possibly anywhere. As unusual as the driftwood is, even more unusual is the glass factory that is open for all to see on Highway 101 and you can make your own vase with their help!!!! In front of our motel is a four sided fountain and beautiful flowers. I've included that, too. Our lunch stop before Astoria, Oregon was at Tillamook Creamery, a large cheese factory!

Marion's view with people.

My view with wildflowers.

I've been wanting to introduce you to Clyde Butcher, a professional photographer in black and white from Venice, Florida who was traveling to some of the same places I was. We never were quite close enough for me to contact him to perhaps meet. The closest was when he was in San Francisco and we were in Berkeley. He was in Lincoln City before San Francisco . His Big Cypress Gallery is in Ochopee, the Everglades. I guess $1,000 is reasonable for "Each photograph is hand printed by Clyde in his darkroom on fi ber-base paper and selenium-toned for archival purposes, then mounted and matted to current archival standards. The photograph is then signed and issued a limited edition number by Clyde."
HOME: http://www.clydebutcher.com/
Clyde's photo of the driftwood: http://www.clydebutcher.com/image/359

The driftwood is on a bay between
where I am standing and the edge.

In the Historic TAFT District.

Lunch at Mo's.

The driftwood is just to the left
of the restaurant.

A hedge with these flowers in TAFT.

We can rest comfortably now since
we're not in the tsunami zone!

The fountain from the 2nd floor.

Isn't this beautiful!

Love this idea of a basket
mounted on an iron pole.

This is back side of the fountain.
The other two sides also had
fountains.

http://www.jennifersearsglassart.com/ to make your reservation!

Choices to make your own.

This is taken from the street sidewalk! You
chose your own colors and where to put them.

Some he helps.

Most of the time is do it yourself

Glass artist Andrew Kogel works with molten glass at The Jennifer Sears Glass Art Studio, Lincoln City.

Visitors come from cities all along the Pacific coast, from Canada to Mexico, but also from Japan, Brazil, Australia, Sweden, England and Italy -- home of glass blowing, David Millen, co-owner, says.

“We’re in a glass renaissance,” he declares. “Since the ‘90s, we’ve been in our biggest boom.”

There’s an international flavor to the studio too: base glass comes from Seattle; colored glass is imported from Germany and New Zealand; tools were bought in Italy.

Millen has been a professional glass artist for more than a decade, yet insists, “you don’t say you blow glass until you’ve been doing it for 20 years. “There’s always something new to learn,” he adds. “And there’s so much to learn, you’re never done learning. “It’s an exciting art form,” Millen says. “Every day is like Christmas here, when you open up the kiln.”

Tillamook, Oregon. You can't miss this stop along the way.