On Wednesday the 24th, we drove to Sisters, OR, about 15 miles from where we were staying. Sisters was named for the three Sister-volcanoes southwest of the town (South Sister, Middle Sister, and North Sister). Sisters is also famous for a MAJOR - AND I MEAN MAJOR - annual quilt show every 2nd Saturday in July - QUILT: need I say any more about why we went to Sisters. In Sisters, Pop 1,700 or so, we walked, window shopped, and stopped for lunch in a really great little restaurant. After lunch, we went back up the street to the Stitching Post, a well known quilt and fabric store, owned by Jean Wells, who appears on several of the quilt shows on TV that DeeDee watches. Of course we helped the local economy by depleting some of the Stitching Post's inventory. DeeDee bought a quilt book authored by Jean Wells and luckily Jean was in the store, so DeeDee was able to get her to sign the book. During our walk through town, we spotted Abigail's gift shop, which of course DeeDee had to get a photo of to show grand daughter Abigail.
On the way back to Eagles Crest, we stopped at a view point where we were able to see seven volcanos in the Cascade Range. The video below shows all seven, starting from south to north: Broken Top - 9,173'; South Sister - 10,358'; Middle Sister - 10,047'; North Sister - 10,085'; Mt. Washington (with the strange pointed top) - 7.794'; Three Fingered Jack - 7.841'; and Mt. Jefferson - 10,497'. Black Butte is between Three Fingered Jack and Mt. Jefferson - it is a small volcanic dome, but is too low and too far east from the Cascade range to get accumulated snow on it and was only about 10 miles away. The volcanos were all about 30 to 40 miles from our view point.
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