DOLOP* Reunions

Reunion 2006 Returned to Grass Valley

After an absence of six years, the DOLOP Reunion returned to Grass Valley at the home of Terry and Anna. First held there in 1991, then again in 1997 and 2000, the big event was moved to Chowchilla in 2002 and to Eugene in 2004. The date in 2006 was Saturday, July 1st.

Sandi tells how this logo came to be:
The watercolor was created by Monteen not long after we moved out here to the farm. She was visiting us and I was walking around the property with her one day and we walked down behind our barn. I commented on how I loved the old dead madrone tree and how it cast an interesting shadow onto the barn in the afternoons. She had a camera with her on that walk and was taking pictures here and there and she proceeded to take a shot of the tree and the barn. I have to mention here that she was checking out several different angles: kneeling here, lying down on her side and shooting and then she completely surprised me by climbing up on the fence for a shot. I was worried that she might fall and amazed that someone her age would try that, but she just climbed right up there, teetered a bit and took her picture. Sometime after that visit, Lucille and I both received these beautiful watercolors of the picture she took. Each one is a bit different. And by the way, that old madrone is now gone, but thanks to Monteen, never forgotten. I came up with the idea of the barn painting as a way to honor this particular G-1 and as a momento of The Oregon DOLOP Reunion
Sandi