Mountains and Rivers and Squirrels (oh, my!)

My aunt Charm knows how to have a fun time, whether it's joy riding through the fields or roasting hot dogs on a stick.
She also knows how to show a girl a good time around town.
Especially when it's Corvallis, a town with some special personal history for my aunt and my mom.
Like the river where Charm saved my my mom from drowning when they were in college:

Or the beautiful college campus itself:

Oregon State University. Look, more leaves changing!

While we were carousing the campus, I spent some time under a weeping birch...

...and in the azalea bushes!! (that one's for you, mom!)

Charm even showed me where she and my mom used to live

and introduced me to Squirrel, an old boyfriend of my mom's (and, lucky for him, a little too far in the past to have any meet your long-lost daughter, pay for her Grad School tuition tricks played on him!!!)

Speaking of blasts from the past...I'm very excited to now spend the next few days meandering down my own memory lane! I arrived in my newest location early this evening, and my wonderful hosts and I have a mountain high amount of catching up to do! -- consider that your first "hint" as to where I am now (to my college comrades: remember the South side, even though I'm now up north!).

Tune in tomorrow to find out where I am now!