I had last week off for fall break at the University of Portland. Kent and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit my cousin Sue and her husband Dave in Jacksonville, a historic gold-rush era town just outside Medford. Pictured here is their rental home, and portraits of us while on a walk. The entire area was quite beautiful, especially Ashland and the wine country/organic farm area between there and Grants Pass. We took a guided tour of the Shakespeare Festival area in Ashland, where they stage hundreds of performances every year.
We went to a movie one night in Ashland -- "Departures," a Japanese film that won the Academy Award this year for best foreign film. It's easy to see why. It tells the strange story of a cellist who loses his job and becomes an undertaker. Sounds macabre, but it's not. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sue and Dave are enjoying their new retired life and have a 20-month lease in this almost Disney-esque housing development in Jacksonville. New construction here must comply with strict codes because of the historic designation of the town, so their neighborhood is filled with homes of a sort of Victorian/Arts and Crafts style.
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