Fog season has arrived
Fog over Ashland, Oregon
We have had many foggy days these past few weeks. Actually, the fog usually departs sometime in the morning.
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Thanksgiving Day Hike
View from the giant boulders on the White Rabbit Trail on Thanksgiving Day 2011
We met up with some friends on Thanksgiving morning for a short hike (under a couple miles round trip I think) in the Siskiyou Mountains. The drive to the parking lot on Ashland Loop Road was spectacular. The valley was filled with fog, but as we neared the top of the road the sun began to eerily peer through the fog-surrounded trees. The scene looked like something out of a vampire movie. Unfortunately, I was driving, and there would have been a revolt had I pulled over to take pictures of the magical view.
We headed out on White Rabbit Trail (crowded on this day for once) until we came to the large boulders. The view below of the foggy valley was amazing. I was wishing that I had my ultra wide angle lens with me at the time. Alas, today’s photo is the best I could do at 18mm (on a DX).
Autumn color
The tree I showed you last week has now become what you see above.
I took today’s photo on my Nikon D7000 with a cheap 50mm f/1.8 lens at f/5. To see what it looks like on the widest aperture of f/1.8 click here.
Rainbow maple tree
Japanese maple in autumn
The Japanese Maple trees in our backyard are completely orange now. But for a day or two last week they were experiencing four colors at once (green, yellow, orange, and red).
Fox in Ashland
Unlike the deer (about 200 of which live in town), we don’t see fox every day in Ashland. Seeing them is one thing, but getting them to hold still long enough for a photo is another.
View from the grave
Mountain View Cemetery in autumn
If you were buried in Mountain View Cemetery, and you could look out the side of your coffin, this is the last glimpse you would take in as you were lowered into the ground during the first couple weeks of November. Or perhaps this would be the first thing you saw after becoming a zombie. Do zombies rise in the middle of a beautiful, fall day like today when I took this photo? Probably not.
Horizontal curves
Looking northwest from the intersection of Terrace and Ashland Loop, today’s photo is a horizontal version of a scene I posted vertically a while back here.
A sea of leaves on SOU campus
I think this is where the season Fall got its name.
The best time to photograph leaves on the ground in autumn, it turns out, is on a Monday morning. Soon after I took this photo a machine moved across campus obliterating all traces of their existence. Of course leaves continued to fall, but they don’t last long during the working weekdays.
I went by Triangle Park in town hoping to take some pictures of the vast quantities of leaves there too. However, maintenance workers had scooped them all up earlier in the day. Next year I’ll have to beat them to the punch.
Marion blackberries
Marionberries in Ashland, Oregon
I think these are Marionberries. They grow all over Ashland, but most are gone by this time of year. Some of these, even near the end of October, weren’t even ripe yet.
Autumn in Ashland
Birds take flight with Mt. Ashland and Wagner Butte in the distance