Boom and bust

In a Gold Rush town and the creative life

My family and I just got back from a wonderful little Spring Break getaway to Southern Oregon. You know that I’m from Southern Oregon, but I’m not from this part. This is the part that has flowers in early March and vineyards and rolling hillsides and pastoral farmlands. I’m from the part where the wind is still whipping and snow is still flying and cows are huddled together on the high, brown plains in-between the harsh, dry buttes until May. If I sound disgruntled about winter, I am. Don’t worry, March is hard; I will return to sunnier dispensations soon.

Anyway. We went to Southern Oregon because my folks had given us a three-night stay in a historic home in Jacksonville for Christmas, and so we took full advantage of quaint walkability of it all. We ate lots of good food and visited an epic children’s museum and did some great hikes. It was awesome.

Downtown Jacksonville. Jesse is giving the stink-eye because this was the last day and he was in serious need of his own bed, thanks v…