Posted on April 30th, 2009 under only in ashland, places. Tags: buildings, clouds, spring. Comments: 1

My daughter’s soccer team was getting beat pretty badly a couple Saturday’s ago. The weather was perfect though, and I started taking more pictures of the scenery than the game. This is from the lower soccer field at Ashland Middle School.

A different angle on the same field and same goal can be seen here.

Posted on April 28th, 2009 under nature, places. Tags: mountains, nature, sports, trees. Comments: 3

Last year my wife planted these flowers (six different kinds–only two and a bit of a third can be seen in this photograph) in the planter box on our deck. After a month or two they died, as flowers do, which was good actually. Normally we plant something and the deer eat them by the next morning. The deer didn’t touch these.

We did nothing to the planter box over the winter. The dead flowers remained. This spring they have all come back to life and have been giving us great visual pleasure for the past month plus. Incredible flowers these are–to be able to bounce back like this after sitting under snow and freezing temperatures all winter and at the same time not be tempting to the deer.

Posted on April 26th, 2009 under nature, places. Tags: flowers, home. Comments: 4

I recently started following a group called Japan_Blogs on Twitter. I was skeptical of Twitter at first because it seemed like mostly garbage, but if you are careful about who you follow you can actually get good information delivered to you very efficiently.

A few days ago I decided to add my other blog to Japan_Blogs on Twitter. As soon as I did so my traffic doubled, and it has remained at twice its former level since. So I figured why not find something similar for this blog? It turns out there wasn’t anything similar so I have created it with Oregon_Blogs and added some of my favorite Oregon blogs to the mix.

If you have a blog that deals in some way, shape, or form with Oregon (maybe photography, Oregon travel, living in Oregon, etc.) then you can have your blog automatically fed through Twitter to anyone interested. Simply leave a reply to this message and include your feed URL in the message. I’ll take it from there.

You need not use Twitter or even have a Twitter account to use this free service. Your content will not be posted on Twitter in total. What will happen is the first few words of your blog posts will be posted with a link back to your blog. Those interested will click the links, driving more traffic to your blog.

Posted on April 25th, 2009 under people. Comments: 6