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Yesterday, my friend and I drove south to Grants Pass, following secondary highways as far as Eugene, before continuing on down the interstate. I took the above photo of a wooden barn seen a bit north of Brownsville (click on image for larger view). I noticed several barns of similar construction in that area. They […]
A view of the garden through the window at my friend’s house this morning (click on image for larger view). Tiny deer or large flowers? A bit of both. After a few small preparations, my friend and I are just about ready to head out to points known and unknown (to us as yet) in […]
See that psychedelic green and yellow BLOB in the middle of this photo — situated over Thunder Bay at the west end of Lake Superior? I flew through that THING today! (This image comes to you courtesy of robin at Dharma Bums who checked the progress of my flight on something called Flight Tracker). Anyhow, […]
What the heck is a tide pool crab doing here? Isn’t he or she a long way from home? Yes, indeed. This one was photographed last October while I was in Oregon and California. I found it in a tide pool along the coast near Brookings, Oregon. I came across the photo this evening while […]
The following pairs of photos were taken from almost identical vantage points with about 30 seconds ticking past between the dark and the light versions. I have not adjusted the brightness of these photos, so what you see is what I got. [Click on images for larger views] Rather remarkable, no? The effect of light […]
Sign Sign everywhere a sign Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign ~ “Signs” by Five Man Electrical Band ~ Folks, it’s a big scary world out there! Or, at least, that’s how it seemed when I was tripping around in the west. Almost everywhere […]
If you’re thinking, “What the heck?” — you’re not alone. I happened upon the above Black Widow spider while trying to photograph some small gray Fishing spiders that were perched on rocks and gliding across the surface of the water along a river in central Oregon in late September. The gray spiders (see below) looked […]