BROOKINGS, OREGON - PART THREE

Ok, this will be the last one of these posts about Brookings. Ready?

Actually, I want to point you toward Maryanne before I get started. And yes, this is the same friend who recently ditched her bargain shopping blog in favor of doing a photography one. The two of us and our siblings all grew up together and somewhere along the way she turned into a photographer. Her pictures of Brookings are my favorites in the whole wide world. As you scroll over her pics you'll see the names of some of the places I've told you about. If you're a Texan, then be sure to check out her album from your neck of the woods too.

Ok, now back to me and some of the things that come to mind when I think of Brookings.

Border - Brookings is the most southwestern part of Oregon, with California south and the Pacific Ocean west of it.

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Indian Sands - A pretty trail, amazing view, and lots of sand to play in.
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4th of July - Few things are better than fireworks over the ocean. Marriage proposals on the jetty do, however, make them an even better experience.

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Azalea Festival - A parade, street fair, and a gazillion other things going on around town make Memorial Day weekend the funnest weekend of the year and your best chance to run into old friends. My mom won the festival naming contest one year, my sister was a festival princess her senior year, and all three of us kids participated in the parade multiple times.

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Home - Go to the open area on the right side. Notice a thin hedge running through the middle of it? The area to the left was my last home in Brookings. Remember how I mentioned being able to hear the ocean from my room? Well, you can check out this map to see how close we were to the beach. A sexist goat, huckleberry lane, the zipline that almost killed Jimmy Greenfield, and hours spent playing tetherball - lots of memories.

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We moved an old 12x60 trailer onto the property and my parents hoped to eventually build a home. My mom got sick and that dream got put aside. However, someone eventually bought the property from us and did build a home there. Evidently it's for sale now, so you can sneak a peek at our old yard right here.
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Pictures from Mapquest, Port of Brookings-Harbor, Just Snooping, Picasa, and Mile by Mile.

And that's that. A little glimpse into the place I spent about a third of my life.