Squirrel on campus
Southern Oregon University campus in April after a snowy night
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The Whole Picture (Part 13)
Kayla Douglas turning two
@SOU_Softball @SOURaiders @cortneyannnolan
The crop of the above photo on souraiders.com is pretty crazy. I kind of like it, but in case you want to see the rest of the image I offer the latest installment in “The Whole Picture”.
SOU softball – Cortney Nolan
The University Field grounds crew is hard at work preparing the field for Saturday’s games (4/4/15) at 11 and 1.
University Field gopher? (Ashland, Oregon)
Backlit deer
@adorama @TamronUSA
I’m probably one of the few owners of the Tamron 150-600mm lens that has used it less for wildlife photography than for other types of photography, but here is a rare wildlife shot I have taken with it.
Green Grizzly
Grizzly Peak is brown for most of the year. Occasionally it will be white on top, and sometimes it is green on the side. However, an unusually warm winter and early spring, coupled with above average rain, has led to it being greener this March than at any other time I can remember.
Ashland sunshine and sakura
blossoms and a sun star
@adorama @Miss604 @imagejournal
The pink flowers in my front yard are several days gone now. These white ones in the backyard seem to have a longer life span, although many have fallen this week. I took this photo a week ago. As Ashland’s cherry blossom season ends, Japan’s is just beginning.
I rather like the sun stars my Nikkor 20mm f/1.8g AF-S lens produces at f/16.
Pink snow
The blossoms are all gone now, but last week (during a shower) they looked like they do in today’s photo.
Ten years ago this tree looked like this.
Now the little girl that was under that tree in 2005 drives the blossom-covered car pictured under this same tree.
Beatty panorama
7-photo photomerge of Beatty, Oregon
Mt. Shasta
Mt. Shasta (left) and Black Butte (far right)
I never grow tired of gazing at Mt. Shasta. I have taken about ten photos from this same location (and posted about four or five of them including this one most recently), but they all look different depending on the time of day, season, and clouds. This location, by the way, is the first (of several) official viewpoints on I-5 heading south from Oregon. I was on my way down to Oakland this past Friday when I took today’s photo.
West Rim Drive in winter
Snowshoeing on Crater Lake’s West Rim Drive
Although Crater Lake’s snow pack is less than 30% of normal for this time of year, it is one of the few places in Southern Oregon with any snow. After bailing on our attempt to snowshoe near the Upper Rogue River due to lack of snow, we did enjoy a walk from the Rim Village to Discovery Point in 60 degree temperatures. Snowshoes weren’t absolutely necessary, but they were useful at times.
Upper Rogue River in winter
Yesterday we went in search of Boundary Springs. We couldn’t find the trailhead (or maybe we did and just didn’t know it). In any event, we parked at the Mazama Viewpoint off Highway 230 as we could see no other place to park near the Mile 19 marker, which is where we read the trail is supposed to start. The sign at Mazama Viewpoint said Upper Rogue River Trail (I think). There was no internet from there, but my GPS worked fine. It looked like we could still do the Boundary Springs Trail if we could find it.
Even though there should have been tons of snow in the area, the snow was fairly minimal–especially for this time of year–so we didn’t bother to put our snowshoes on. We ended up walking on the trail for several miles before realizing we were no longer going toward Boundary Springs. At that point we turned around, walked back to our car, drove to Crater Lake, and snowshoed there.
I want to try the Boundary Springs Trail again. I saw this sign, but couldn’t read it. Apparently this is where we should have turned to get to Boundary Springs.