A row of trees eating a wire. What more can I say about this? I suppose, technically, the power company cut the tree to avoid touching the wire, but who has the better story? This ravenous-looking group of trees can be found on the Cascade Highway between Sublimity and Silverton. Photo: Taken in rural Marion [...]
In the Summertime, the beach in Seaside is teeming with activity. Kids of all ages are playing on the swing-set, and gathering around the volleyball nets that are usually around this area. Yet, on a lonely Winter day, the surf continues to come in, the wind shapes the beach-grass into a new hairdo, and the [...]
One of the best things about most of the cities in the Cascadia region is that no matter how big a city you are in, it is never too far from a quiet place among the trees. In this case, the US Bank Tower is clearly visible from between the big trees lining the edges [...]
Or, they’re nice deer, dear. Or, well, whatever….. In any case, I found this herd of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus) calmly grazing and prancing and performing the other duties of a deer in a field near Wilsonville. There were actually about a dozen of them, and they were, among other things, amusing the residents of [...]
Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack. Quack Quack Quack Quack. Quack. Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack. Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack. Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack. (People-English translation: It’s quackin’ cold out here today, but there are people-beasts around, and sometimes they bring bread crumbs for [...]
Just take a look out from between the trees up on Terwilliger Blvd. There’s the Hawthorne Bridge and the Morrison Bridge out there, and the Convention Center in the background. But not much else is visible on a quiet Christmas afternoon looking out over the Willamette River. Photo: Taken from Terwilliger Blvd in Portland on [...]
Somehow, in our busy lives, it is difficult to just stop and watch nature take its course. I had the opportunity to do just that this Spring. Just take a few steps into the woods, don’t disrupt the trees or the lichens, and just enjoy the best of nature. A quiet little place, among the [...]
Among the active and odoriferous dairy farms of Tillamook County lies this lonely, abandoned railroad line. The area remains very active agriculturally, but this particular track and railroad bridge have not seen much use in a long time. It is always nice to take a drive through the land of cheese, trees, and ocean breeze! [...]
All at once, I was standing at a viewpoint over looking the Pacofic Ocean. I was upon Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain, which we learned in yesterday’s post was named in local legends as meaning “the place of the supreme diety.” So it was an amazing surprise to see the sun shine through the clouds near sunset in [...]
It always amazes me how the constant wind that happens along the beach can sculpt the trees into such unique shapes. Here, these trees along the edge of Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain on the Oregon Coast have obviously seen years of constant pounding in the wind. In the background is the picturesque beach at Manzanita, where the [...]
