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Outside Magazine put Ashland in its “America’s 25 Best Towns” and gave it the “Best for Trail Running” award. I’m not a trail runner myself, but I do like to hike and mountain bike Ashland’s trails. Tomorrow I’ll post a good map of Ashland’s trails.
Just another photo from my pre-dawn photos I took a few weeks back. This one is from the plaza in downtown Ashland looking up Siskiyou Blvd. towards the Ashland Springs Hotel which you can see in the distance.
I love it when the sky does this. This is the view from home. The mountains are known as the Western Cascades.
If today’s photo looks familiar then you have a good memory. I took a similar photo two years ago of Jess Kuehlwein doing basically the same thing from a different angle.
The SOU women’s soccer team is off to their best start ever (4-1-1 as of this writing). They won this game, against Linfield College, in overtime 1-0.
As mentioned yesterday, Days of the New were the headliners at the show at the Rogue Theatre in Grants Pass. I never really got into grunge or post-grunge so I knew nothing about Days of the New. Like most people in attendance, I went to the show to see Floater.
Today’s pic is of Travis Meeks who is basically the whole band. I thought the guy was in his late 40s, but it turns out he was only 31. Moral of the story: don’t do meth.
Meeks is an amazing musician, but he seemed to treat his hired guns (bass and drums) like dirt.
Anyway, here is another Floater video for you. This time they are doing a song that sounds more like Primus than typical Floater IMO.
Last night I went to see Floater (again) at the Rogue Theatre. This show was very different from my prior two experiences at the same place. The crowd, this time, was tiny as Floater was the opening band (for Days of the New). If Floater was the headliner the place would have been packed. Many, of the few concert goers, left after Floater’s short set of only about six or seven songs.
The pic above I took from my car at midnight. Rob Wynia, of Floater, is standing under the marquee and talking with some other guys. Floater is playing an acoustic set tonight, but I will pass since it will probably be another mini set list.
Here is a video I took of them doing “Weightless” off their “Stone by Stone” CD. The lighting in the Rogue Theatre (in Grants Pass, almost an hour north of Ashland on I-5) was really bad, but the audio is pretty good (on this song anyway). There were many audio problems during the night including Rob’s mic not working for half of one song and annoying feedback during much of Days of the New’s performance.
Today’s pic is a better view of the performance I’ve mentioned the past couple days.
The act in yesterday’s photo was called “Nathan Stein & Hillel: A fool’s feast of balls, balloons, magic and madness.” While today’s photo isn’t a very good one of their performance, I like it for the expressions on the audience’s faces.
Today’s photo includes the start of “The Green Show.” In the background, you can see a banner going across the street mentioning this being the 75th season for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Much farther away you can see Grizzly Peak.
Following up on yesterday’s entry, I had the very berry (strawberry, blackberry, and a few others) pie.
Ryan had the peanut butter pie. Actually we each ate half of each other’s.