Today’s entry would have been far more timely had I done it several days ago when Oregon Ducks’ fever was at an all-time high. Alas, I forgot about the photo I had of the Oregon Ducks’ Voodoo donut. After the loss to Auburn, everyone’s Duck gear seems to have disappeared.

You can see the green and yellow Ducks donut in the above photo in the back on the right. I took this photo in Eugene on the day after Thanksgiving. The Ducks were hosting Arizona that night. Since the holidays were approaching, you can see they were working on some Christmas-themed donuts. To make things look non-biased from a religious perspective, they also tossed in a Jewish one it seems.

ESPN has done some “special” game day Voodoo doughnuts made for them when they were in town.

Posted on January 12th, 2011 under outside of ashland. Tags: eugene, food, video. Comments: 1

Another picture today from my trip to Utah late last month. Viewing the Christmas lights on Temple Square are a must if you happen to be in Salt Lake City in December.

Posted on January 11th, 2011 under outside of ashland. Tags: utah. Comments: 2

Another photo from our trip to Utah… This one is from Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

Posted on January 3rd, 2011 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: christmas, night photography, utah. Comments Off on Nativity reflecting pool

Stepping back in time a day or so from the last few entries, this photo is not a good example of how you can’t take good pictures from your car. I took this from the dashboard, while driving 75 MPH, through the windshield. I was bored and everyone else in the car was asleep.

I don’t think these are the Sierra Nevada Mountains (aren’t they only on the California border?). I think I was between Wells and Elko on I-80 heading west when I snapped this photo.

The photo, obviously, isn’t perfect given my speed and the window dirt, but with a little noise reduction in Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 the picture can be improved a bit as seen below.

Posted on January 2nd, 2011 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: mountains, nevada, winter. Comments Off on Snow-capped Nevada Mountain Scene

The lack of brake lights in this photo tells you one of two things:

1) Everyone is tailgating in such perfect precision that brakes are unnecessary, or
2) We are all parked on the freeway.

The correct answer is 2. I took this picture at the same time and place as yesterday’s entry.

This was the first time (and hopefully the last that) I’ve ever turned off my engine while in the fast lane. I’ve been in traffic many, many times before, but killing the engine to wait it out wasn’t in my prior experience.

Posted on January 1st, 2011 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: california. Comments Off on Unusual I-5 scene

I may take a little side trip to Finland this summer while working in Denmark. In the middle of a blizzard, we ended up with a premature visit of sorts a couple nights ago. This was our hotel on our way home to Ashland from Utah.

The Finlandia Motel sign said “Vacancy” on our way in. We took the last room they had on this unplanned stop.

Posted on December 30th, 2010 under outside of ashland. Tags: california, signs, snow. Comments Off on Finlandia Motel – Mt. Shasta City, California

I have been in Utah for Christmas five or six times in my life. I think this was the first that wasn’t a White Christmas. However, the day after Christmas, several inches of snow fell in the afternoon. I went on a little hike up the mountain side before the sun went down in order to take this photo of Fruit Heights, with Kaysville (and maybe a little of Farmington to the left) in the background.

Posted on December 27th, 2010 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: night photography, snow, utah, winter. Comments: 1

We went for a walk around Temple Square the other night. Rain was falling, but not too heavily.

The best looking building on Temple Square, in my opinion, is the Assembly Hall which is now about 130 years old. Temple Square is famous for its Christmas lights.

Posted on December 26th, 2010 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: night photography, utah. Comments Off on Assembly Hall on Temple Square

We spend Christmas in Utah most years. We weren’t here last year, but we are this year. It has been foggy every day so I won’t have many pictures from Utah this time.

Posted on December 25th, 2010 under outside of ashland. Tags: christmas, trees, utah. Comments: 1