snowy Ashland sunrise

Today’s photo comes from this past Tuesday morning.

Posted on December 16th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, snow, sunrise, winter. Comments Off on Sunrise over snowy Ashland

view while walking along White Rabbit Trail in the Ashland watershed

Posted on December 13th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: hike, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, sun star. Comments Off on White Rabbit Trail

Line of trees in front of Churchill Hall covered in snow

Today’s photo is a reverse angle from this prior post. Oh yeah, and the season is a bit different too.

Posted on December 12th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: campus, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4, snow, Southern Oregon University, winter. Comments Off on Snow tree tunnel

Peabody’s Wayback

This is not what Ashland looks like at the moment. Today’s photo was taken back in January in the mountains to the east of Ashland. In fact, there is no snow in Ashland as I write this. However, the forecast is for snow so they have closed the schools.

Posted on December 6th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon D600, snow, sun star, winter. Comments Off on All schools are closed in Ashland today

Snow has yet to fall in Ashland this winter. However, the forecast says snow will begin tomorrow morning and we are supposed to receive 2-4 inches tomorrow. Forecasts always seem to be wrong, though, so I’m predicting either no snow or 6-8 inches.

Today’s photo is from a couple winters ago.

Posted on December 5th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: snow, winter. Comments Off on Snow tracks

Ashland, Oregon

December is upon us so these colors no longer exist, but in early November this is what things looked like from my window.

Posted on December 1st, 2013 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: autumn, fog. Comments Off on Light fog through Ashland

bald eagle with rodent in claws

I have been kicking myself since June for only having my 24-120mm lens with me the first time I visited this ranch in Oregon high desert country. The second time I brought my 70-300mm lens, but there were no eagle sightings on that day.

This photo showed up as my background, desktop photo of the day so I decided to process it. When I viewed it at 100% I realized that this eagle has a field mouse in its talons. You can see it too if you click on the image (maybe twice depending on your browser) to view it at 100%.

Posted on November 21st, 2013 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: beatty, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Bald eagles hunt rodents too

Autumn on the SOU campus

Soon things won’t look so great. By the end of November only the evergreen trees will be something other than brown and dreary. These last few moments of the fall season are to be cherished.

The buildings in the background of today’s photo of the Southern Oregon University campus are the Computer Sciences buildings (Computing Services and the Main Computer Lab).

Posted on November 4th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: autumn, campus, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4, Southern Oregon University, sun star. Comments Off on Another back to school day

Autumn trail in Lithia Park

Posted on October 29th, 2013 under lithia park, nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: autumn, leaves, lithia park, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Autumn in Lithia Park