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The weather has been really great the past week. I took today’s photo several days ago. When I rode my bike through Lithia Park yesterday, the fall colors were more spectacular, but I didn’t have my camera with me. The foliage changes so much every day. I love this time of year.
I’m just testing out a few things. If you “Like” through the link below I think you will automatically get all of the updates to this blog delivered to your Facebook newsfeed. Let’s hope it works.
The greens of today (yesterday is when I actually took this picture) will soon turn colors. A couple months later it will all be white. Don’t believe me? See these prior shots from the same, exact location.
The leaves are changing colors around the SOU campus. Here is the same, basic view in a much different season.
This is, of course, the same view I’ve posted a couple dozen times, at least, before. Every day it’s different though.
After the koto performance, we were treated to Kelvin Underwood and Suzee Grilley on the, mostly, taiko drums. Really, really good stuff.
Today’s photo is from halftime at yesterday’s AMS football game.
The vineyard in yesterday’s photo is in today’s photo on the mountainside on the left side of this picture.
While it is quite common to see the Buddha resting on a lotus flower, he doesn’t seem to mind the shade of a vineyard either.
In the distance you can see the Ashland Springs Hotel (and my house–I can’t really see it as it isn’t nearly as prominent as the hotel, but it is in this picture).
I didn’t know which blog this would be most fitting to post on so I’m doing so, with different photos, on both.
This past Sunday, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was having its “Culture Fest.” At noon a matinée Green Show featured Mitsuki Dazai on the Japanese koto. Ms. Dazai was lots of fun between songs, telling stories and enchanting the crowd.
Here she is performing Shaei (斜影 or Diagonal Shadows) by Hikaru Sawai (沢井 比河流). Sawai was in a heavy metal band before writing this piece for the koto.
Before I give you the result, I should back up a little bit. Last week SOU’s football team played Menlo at home. SOU’s lead in that game evaporated in the 4th quarter, and we all went home unhappy.
This week’s game had carbon copy written all over it with SOU jumping out to a 13-0 lead against Western Oregon University. WOU came back and moved ahead by one with just a few minutes left. It looked to be over until a bobbled catch on a 4th down and 12 put SOU in field goal range. Tyler Crowley easily made a 42-yard field goal earlier in the game so this shorter kick looked like a piece-of-cake, last-second victory for the Raiders.
A split second after I took this picture the ball did not go through the uprights, and we all went home unhappy once again.
