I had to scoot to get home at the end of the day, so don’t have the exact numbers of the count from yesterday (I left them with another person so they could be added to the total counts for our area) but I can say there were fewer numbers of birds out and about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Oregon’
festival of trees
I love trees. It may be from living so long without many in the northern Arizona high desert where I was raised. I easily fell in love with the big cottonwoods that stood at the gate to my grandparents house in Bagdad and can conjure their scent at will, and their slow rustle in a [...]
Shadow Shot Sunday
Thanksgiving Day (in the USA; Portland, Oregon to be exact) was sodden. Yesterday we had four times our average rain (0.86 in vs. 0.20 in) and I’d thought it was to continue all week and weekend. But, Friday was lovely, so here is a fresh shadow.
(I’m obsessing on bare trees and crows at the moment. Be [...]
Outside the First Presbyterian Church in November
Outside the First Presbyterian Church in November
Portland, Oregon
Ginkgoes form an old processional.
Pleased golden paws fulfill their pledge,
a promise to mirror pigment of artful
glass while gray tones echo cut
stone, marching to and from fall mist.
Ancient shapes plaster the sidewalk,
reminders, not pernicious, they once
purveyed a timeless era. Their policy,
these remarkable species, to pave
the ground plane nearly all at [...]
already missing the blue
Muted Senses Are On Alert
The hours of civil light leave piecemeal
Clouded by normal twists in a natural world
Crepuscular hunters win the long twilight
And wrestle blue from October’s sky to ground
Damp pushes moods to sit close, hog the blanket
Musty from a short summer. Matutinal edicts
Are forced on those who crave the long slant light
Long draughts to [...]
Shadow Shot Sunday
A sunny walk along the Willamette River, under the Morrison Bridge:
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Do go check out Hey Harriet. She creates galleries of some of the last week shots and takes you on a tour of her own. Terrific images nicely put together. This week she’s got three fantastic river shots herself! Serendipity: I love it. [...]
Ramona Falls
(Click through a couple of times to get to larger pictures. The first two are especially worth it, if I do say so myself.)
Ramona Falls is worth the 90-minute drive from Portland, especially if it’s a beautiful, off-season day. My friend and I saw few people on the trail (a lot less than Mirror Lake [...]
another Mount Hood hike
I knew I should take advantage of a beautiful Friday (how many are left?) to hike with Sport. I dithered about where to go because I didn’t want to drive far (take too much time) or be too remote or in fall hunting territory (safety issues). So I decided to try the Burnt Lake hike [...]
drinking the good drink
Another bit of confluence:
Our weekend away spoiled by smoke, we stayed in town. One treat: happy hour at a Good Bar. Teardrop Cocktail Lounge in the Pearl.
Saturday late afternoon about five. Still hot in the city, we sat at the bar and asked the owner for recommendations. Two cocktails each. Not cheap, not pricey. [...]
