SOME MORE AUTUMN IN BEND PHOTOS

Thanks for visiting and looking at the pics in the post before this.  Here are some more photos that make me anxious to be able to visit Bend again some day.

The neighborhood they live in is called Northwest Crossing and these houses are built in a circle around a park called Compass Park - The live 3 houses down from the park where so many kids and parents would gather there and visit while the kids played.  I enjoyed many hours at the park with my grandkids in my 5 or 6 times i have been there since 2012.  These are all from my first trip to Bend.

Mirror Pond down below - the lake - is part of an "impoundment" of Deschutes River as it runs through town.  It's a beautiful park and lake which is right in Downtown Bend.

"I LOVE BEND IN THE FALL"

. The very first time I visited Bend, Oregon was in October 2012.  My son and his family had just moved there from SoCal where we live.   This was the  first trip ever to Oregon and it was a perfect time of year.  Bend is considered high desert - it's in central Oregon about 3500 ft altitude.  They experience beautiful  seasons there and the fall is especially  beautiful.  

I figure for the rest of the month I will post photos from various places I've visited in autumn.   They make me happy just looking at them again.  My granddaughter is now 13 but the day we took her over to Mirror Pond she was about 5.  Jake was just 2 1/2.