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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 [...]
No, it’s not that I was really doing anything that I would be embarrassed for. Rather, it was that I was caught doing it. I’m not sure what “it” was, but it is just so very obvious from the way that this seagull is looking at me that I have been caught doing something. (Click [...]
It was a rainy day on the Oregon Coast this week, and the town of Wheeler in Tillamook County was no exception. Despite a rather heavy rain shower, there were kids riding by on bicycles, three young men checking their crab pots from a nearby dock in the bay, and these boats, near the Wheeler [...]
Back when I visited the site of the Buena Vista Ferry a couple of months ago, I was greeted by a local cat who took the opportunity to show me around a bit. It obviously lived at a house nearby, but came down to the ferry dock to see who the human was who was [...]
So, there’s this bridge that connects the Oregon town of Independence with the road to South Salem, across the Willamette River, some 12 miles away. I wanted to get a picture of it, but just about every angle I tried was either pretty uninteresting or was mostly shielded by the trees. In the end, this [...]
On one of the last sunny days of Summer, it is nice to find a secluded spot, with the clear waters of the Willamette River flowing gently by, and the reflections of the trees to see. I found my spot near the rural community of Buena Vista, about six miles upriver from Independence Oregon. Surrounding [...]
The last time I was standing at Chanticleer Point in the Columbia River Gorge it was March. Many of the trees were bare for the Winter and the cold Easterly wind was blowing pretty good. This week’s trip was a bit more sunny and clear. The scenery was decidedly more green than the last time [...]
As they say, a rolling stone gathers no moss. That is fortunate, since the moss on this large rock near the cliffs around Wahkeena Falls in the Columbia River Gorge shows that this rock hasn’t moved in a while. I would have hated to be standing near that spot when the boulder originally fell onto [...]
