Blue Skies at Tamara-nawas Falls

Today, Geoff and I headed up to the Mazamas Lodge

where we got married just over a year ago.
Dae and Clif, who catered our wedding, are moving to Arizona,
so, they invited us up to the lodge to say good-bye.
We were hoping to visit our sapling, too...
(but, fortunately, our marriage is a lot stronger
than that little tree was...)

Needing to get back to Portland to babysit the twins,
we had just enough time to venture out
into the woods for a few hours after our visit...

We drove around to the east side of the mountain
to Tamawanas Falls...could we go anywhere else
other than a place named that?!

The colors were even more epic than at the lodge...

and it was a great way to tire out not only the dogs...
but the prego-chica, too!
Didn't really expect that there'd be ICE FIELDS!
(Geoff timed this picture just right!)
but we were just hit with a cold spell,
so it should have been no big surprise.
After what could have turned into a disastrous evening,
(we had this really "great idea" to go different ways
in hopes of giving Tamara a bit of a hiking break!),
we finally found each other on the road
and headed back home.
Nothing like a little adrenaline rush
and the end of a beautiful day on the mountain!