Saturday afternoon brings a wonderful surprise: a visit to the Connie Hansen Garden. Barely a block off US 101, we enter a far-from-the-madding-crowd acre of magnificent botanica, the culmination of one woman’s gardening dreams. In 1973, Connie Hansen moved north from California (her home place was being converted to a BART station) to Lincoln City. Over [...]
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Lincoln City: Part 3, Don’t Miss the Connie Hansen Garden
Posted in Landscapes, Oregon, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Central Oregon Coast, Connie Hansen Garden Lincoln City OR, Lincoln City OR, US 101 Coastal Oregon on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lincoln City: Part 2, Being There
Posted in Landscapes, Oregon, Western Travel Writing, tagged Central Oregon Coast, Lincoln City OR, US 101 Coastal Oregon on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the map, Lincoln City looks like an extended, skinny strip, bordered on the west by the ocean, on the east by Devil’s Lake. On the ground, that turns out to be true. As in many a beach town, US 101 (the main drag) spools out in a dizzying array of Mexican fast food, chowder [...]
A Visit to Lincoln City: Part 1, Getting There
Posted in Environment, Landscapes, Natural History, Oregon, Parks & Monuments, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Central Oregon Coast, Central Oregon Coast natural areas, Central Oregon Coast parks, Lincoln City OR, US 101 Coastal Oregon on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we took a trip north to Lincoln City. Just 200 miles, with only three large towns along the way, we managed to take ten hours getting there. We don’t screech to a halt at every roadside tourist attraction though there are plenty. Instead, our weakness is the natural places—parks and waysides. And there [...]
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