[or-roots] Covered bridges

[Cecil Houk]

Dear Verdena:

Rachel and I have taken great pictures with cheap and $$$ cameras.  Not to brag, but I have a Nikon F3 SLR, $1,500 with all the goodies.  In 1998, on our trip to OR, WA and MT, I put a 36 exposure roll of film in it.... didn't get one darn picture; the film wasn't loaded correctly.  A disposable would have done better; at a fraction of the cost!!

Cecil
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Verdena Veelle 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Covered bridges


  Cecil, 
  I am pretty sure that this is the mailbox that we saw on Memorial Day as we were going to Belle Passi cemetery in Woodburn.  I took some pictures but just with a disposable camera.  I just am not good with a lot of these new-fangled things and am not really very good with the digital.  If and when I get the pictures developed will send some to you.
  Verdena
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Cecil Houk 
    To: or-roots 
    Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:16 AM
    Subject: [or-roots] Covered bridges


    Years ago there were many covered bridges in Oregon.  Far too many of them are now history.  The dams on the Santiam River eliminated 2 or 3 of them (at Foster and Quartsville).



    My late brother, Doug Houk had a fascination with those bridges.  The pix above is his mail box on 99E in Aurora, OR taken in August, 2000.  I hope it's still there.

    Doug also made covered bridge bird feeders, and would have made many more had he not lost his fight with cancer in 1997.  There was one next to his home in Aurora; atop a 10 foot steel pole.  His cat, Ms Dos (who now lives with me), tried many times to jump from the fence to it.  You can see this bird feeder at:
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/13/bird.jpg

    Cecil

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