Ol’ Mount’n Due @ Britt Festivals
Ol’ Mount’n Due on the Table Rock Britt Performance Garden Stage opening for The Avett Brothers (9/7/14)
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Gibbon @ Wildlife Safari (Winston, Oregon)
photo taken in March of 2011 @ Wildlife Safari
Flock of pelicans? No, they are a squadron.
Squadron of pelicans
I took today’s photo a week ago while we were at a friend’s ranch a few hours to the east of Ashland. You probably won’t see pelicans in Ashland, but they are common near Klamath Lake. This picture captures only about half of the total pelicans that made up this squadron. After gracefully circling around the property for more than 10 minutes they were scared off by a single hawk.
790 fire from Sevenmile Rd
On Sunday afternoon we headed back to Ashland from Beatty taking a different route than our normal Highway 140. This time we went along the Sprague River and through Chiloquin. Shortly after passing through Chiloquin our GPS had us on Road 1349 (AKA Sevenmile Road). The cows munching away while a fire burned a nearby seemed a bit surreal. I stopped the car for a second to take this cell phone pic.
Buddy Guy @ Britt Festival
Buddy Guy @ Britt Festival 2014
I had no plans to take photos at the Buddy Guy and Peter Frampton show at Britt in Jacksonville last night. In fact, I didn’t even bring my camera. But when Buddy Guy practically ended up in my lap at this point in the evening, I did take this quick cell phone shot.
Another from Ashland’s sister city
Guanajuato, Mexico
Yes, those are birds in cages in the windows upstairs. I could hear them from across a wide and busy street. It was only when I looked for where the sound was coming from that I saw the bearded man.
View from El Gallo Pitagorico
Guanajuato blue hour
Blue Italian restaurant on the hill
El Gallo Pitagorico (Guanajuato restaurant)
I first visited El Gallo Pitagorico about 10 years ago. I don’t remember the food on that evening, only the view and the chairs.
The ownership recently changed, and we had the good fortune to talk to the new owner. She speaks English, is very nice, and she is making El Gallo Pitagorico even better. She told us she had to let some workers go because they weren’t that good at what they do. I saw her training the employees to be perfectionists.
Our food was very good. After dinner, the new owner said we could go upstairs and watch the sunset from their future bar. The bar is far from finished at this point, but El Gallo Pitagorico will only get better.
Easy to find, look for the blue restaurant on the hillside when you are at the Don Quixote statue on the side of the Hotel San Diego.
28 de Septiembre
Guanajuato after dark
Today’s photo come from a little stretch of Guanajuato famous for its part in the history of Mexican Independence. I was in Guanajuato on September 28 about 10 years ago. That was a crazy celebration.
Subterránea Miguel Hidalgo
Streets of Guanajuato, Mexico
Ashland and Guanajuato share a lot of things in common–art community, university town, valley nestled in mountains, large tourism industry, etc. One thing Guanajuato has that Ashland doesn’t (does any place other than Guanajuato have this?) are the underground roads. Guanajuato’s tunnels sometimes have daylight overhead like the portion of the road in today’s photo.
The tunnels were originally put in place to reduce flooding and a river of water (and sewage) ran through it until 50 years ago. A dam was then built and the previous water channel was converted into a road for vehicles and pedestrians.