Bill and Chelsea Clinton on the SOU campus campaigning for Hillary (2008)

Before this blog existed, I took today’s photo on a 4MP Kodak Easyshare camera.

May 18th, 2026 | Tags: campus, Southern Oregon University | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on 18 years ago today…

Amanda Moffat

May 17th, 2026 | Tags: Amanda Moffat, Raider Athletics, volleyball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Happy birthday, Amanda Moffat!

Avery Coffin

May 16th, 2026 | Tags: Avery Coffin, Raider Athletics, softball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Happy birthday, Avery Coffin!

Player intros, starring Avery Coffin and Gabby Heiken

If you’d told me a week ago, or a month ago, that three CCC teams will make the final ten teams, I would have put money on those teams being SOU, EOU, and OIT. Nope. It’s SOU, UBC, and CoI. This is the first time that three teams from the same conference have made it to the final ten. The CCC was very close to sending five teams, which would have really been bonkers.

The NAIA, stacked the deck against the Cascade Collegiate Conference, by placing all three CCC teams on the same side of the bracket. That means that there won’t be two CCC teams in the winners bracket come Monday the 25th.

The Raiders first opponent will be Cumberlands, who Massey Ratings has as #8 of the ten teams left. (Massey has SOU as #2–not #3.) Massey gives SOU a 66% chance of winning on Thursday.

The #1 team, Madonna, has had an incredibly weak schedule. That includes the Opening Round. According to Massey, Madonna has played zero teams in the top 14. They’ve only played one team in the top 20 since early February, Cumberlands. And they went 1-1 against Cumberlands.

The Raiders, on the other hand, have had 19 games against teams in the top 14.

May 15th, 2026 | Tags: Avery Coffin, gabby heiken, Raider Athletics, softball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on SOU goes into NAIA Softball World Series as #3 seed

Ashland, Oregon (April 2026)

May 15th, 2026 | Tags: landscape, Nikon Z6III, sunrise, Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 DI III VXD Lens | Category: nature, only in ashland, photography, places | Comments Off on Another Ashland Sunrise

May 14th, 2026 | Tags: ashland high school, lilli patton, lithia park, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm f/2.8 PRO DX Lens | Category: lithia park, only in ashland, people | Comments Off on 10 years ago today

Kaylie Christopher with the kill

May 13th, 2026 | Tags: Kaylie Christopher, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, Raider Athletics, Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 DI III VXD Lens, volleyball | Category: only in ashland, people | Comments Off on Happy birthday, Kaylie Christopher!

Charlie Francipane of Emissary @ 2025 Boatnik

May 12th, 2026 | Tags: concert photography, emissary, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z50II | Category: outside of ashland, people | Comments Off on Happy birthday, Charlie Francipane!

This was during construction of the Lithia Motors Pavilion. You can see this on the far right side of the photo.

Also on the right, in the air, is a red-tailed hawk admiring its own logo on the field.

May 11th, 2026 | Tags: grizzly peak, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D500, panorama, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, wrestling | Category: only in ashland, photography, places | Comments Off on 10 years ago