Bear in the neighborhood
As I was driving home a bear lumbered across the street in front of my car. By the time I had parked he had wandered up to Ridge Road so I wandered after him. He seemed to like eating grass.
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Grizzly Peak from the SOU campus
I took today’s photograph from the Computing Services building on the Southern Oregon University campus early last month. This is my view as I walk to class (from Central Hall to Taylor Hall) most days.
SOU Plunkett Center
Southern Oregon University’s Plunkett Center sits on the corner of Mountain and Siskiyou. The building serves as the home of the foundation and alumni relations. A beautiful building in any season, my favorite is April when one of the two trees in front of it is always in bloom. The tree on the right of the building (center of this photograph) had yet to bloom when I took this picture in early April.
Sunny day on the soccer field
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.
Flowers and reflections
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.
Same tree, different season
I probably should have waited another week or two to take this one as the leaves are just beginning to appear. In a few weeks this tree will be really green. Oh well. Here is what it looked like last fall.
Even the cemeteries are screaming new life at this time of year.
Sunrise on a Spring morning
A fog was hanging over the valley as I woke up last week to this scene.
Grizzly Peak from Ashland Middle School
One of my favorite views in town is from the Ashland Middle School. I took this picture from inside the school looking out to the north. If I was a student I would not be able to do anything but stare out the windows–especially this time of year when things have gone green. We only get a few months of rich green before summer turns much of this view a duller, brownish color.
Glenview Drive view
I previously mentioned how Ashland was the inspiration for the setting of the recent movie, Coraline. While on a recent bike ride the view in the above photograph reminded me of that movie, at least the foreground. If you’ve seen the movie you’ll remember the environment surrounding the well. Where I took this picture from, the terrain, trees, and general atmosphere is very similar.
There are many other things in Ashland that were drawn on and appeared in the movie. The most obvious, of course, is the letter that says “Ashland, OR” right on it. But there are others that I’ll share with you in the future.
Spring Soccer
Last weekend we had perfect weather for soccer (and just about anything else). Temperatures were in the low 70s, the brownish-green winter grass turned a bright green, and the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.
This game was Ashland vs. Medford in Medford, 10-year old girls in a competitive league. The outcome? 0 – 0. Don’t you just love those high scoring soccer matches that can end without a victor? 😉