Friday Shoot-Out: Classics of Childhood

The idea of the My Town Shoot-Out is to post photos of your local community every Friday. This week's assignment was chosen by Ellisa, from Michigan.

All photos taken in or near Corvallis, Oregon

Some pictures from this summer:

A four year old playing in the very unpredictable fountains down on the riverfront: fun on a hot day, and boy did he get clean.



Here's a sweet, perfectly-dressed little girl mesmerized by a train set at the toy store.



The clean-theme ends here. I took this at the Da Vinci Days Mud Bog part of the Kinesthetic Sculpture Race. Now is not the time to explain what a kinesthetic sculpture is or how they conduct their insane races, but suffice it to say that during the mud bog portion, a lot of adults and kids got into a lot of mud on a very hot day. And I find this shot a little weird.


Last Friday we were in nearby Newport, OR, and we went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where they have several hands-on pools for kids, and patient volunteers watching over things.

I loved watching kids being tender towards sea urchins.

We booked a room at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, as a birthday treat. Sylvia Beach is a funky old place designed to appeal to book lovers only; each room is painted and decorated according to a particular author. There is the Oscar Wilde, the Willa Cather, the Gertrude Stein, the Mark Twain, the Ernest Hemingway, the William Shakespeare, the Edgar Allen Poe....and the only available room: the Dr. Seuss, complete with a trundle bed. I sat on the floor and took a couple of pictures:


There was a Cat In the Hat Mural, a bright red dresser, lots of stuffed animals, and a hat rack with a hat that John tried on. This is kind of weird too (but we did have fun.)