Friendship

We love sharing some of our favorite coastal spots with people that we love! And...I think I've taken you along to these sites over and over too.

The weather has been just perfect and it's been so nice having Bob and Nancy here. Bob is one of Paul's seminary buddies that he goes to Colorado with....

....and we've known Nancy for almost just as long as we've known Bob.

Kettle Cove

It was a blue sky fluffy white cloud kind of day....

and Bug Light Park was postcard perfect.

I have mixed feelings about cruise ships...but they are important to the Portland downtown economy. This large Norwegian ship dominated the view of the city from Bug Light Park from across Portland Harbor.

I have a few more pieces in the puzzle.....so let's celebrate a couple more inspirational suffragettes!

Lucretia Mott was born in 1793. She was a Quaker minister, a women's rights activist and the first president of the American Equal Rights Association.  

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in 1797. She risked her life to escape with her young son and lived her entire life in the fight for justice and women's rights. "Ain't I a woman" is a famous line from one of her speeches".....and Paul used to have a poster highlighting the words from this speech.

Inez Milholland Boissevain was born in 1886 and was a lawyer and public speaker. She led a women's suffrage parade through Washington DC in 1913 all dressed in white and wearing a crown. On her dying bed in 1916 her last words were "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?"