Horizontal curves
Looking northwest from the intersection of Terrace and Ashland Loop, today’s photo is a horizontal version of a scene I posted vertically a while back here.

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Looking northwest from the intersection of Terrace and Ashland Loop, today’s photo is a horizontal version of a scene I posted vertically a while back here.
The best time to photograph leaves on the ground in autumn, it turns out, is on a Monday morning. Soon after I took this photo a machine moved across campus obliterating all traces of their existence. Of course leaves continued to fall, but they don’t last long during the working weekdays.
I went by Triangle Park in town hoping to take some pictures of the vast quantities of leaves there too. However, maintenance workers had scooped them all up earlier in the day. Next year I’ll have to beat them to the punch.
Are you sick of the fall foliage yet? Me neither. I took today’s photo earlier this week in the morning before the crowds gathered in Lithia Park to enjoy these trees in their splendor.
Another ultra-wide angle photo today… This time of the Ashland Springs Hotel from down the street near the Ashland Post Office.
Sunday morning I went to a few locations in the morning to take some photos while the sun was still low in the sky. The Ashland Cemetery is such a lovely place, especially this time of year.
When students came back to campus at Southern Oregon University this fall they noticed that garbage cans had multiplied from one at a location to at least three to allow for recycling. This new art exhibit on Raider Way, through the center of campus, has taken that one step further. The recycling of prosthetic limbs seems to be making some headway.
I went for a fall photo shoot in Lithia Park on Sunday. Most trees aren’t at their peak yet, but some are. On my way home, as I headed down Ridge Rd., I looked up at the above birches trying unsuccessfully to completely block out the blue sky. I get a bit nostalgic around birch trees as we had three in my front yard as I was growing up.
Ashland experienced some rain this past week for just the first or second time in months. Some leaves have begun to turn colors for fall, but most are still at least a week or two away from major fall foliage.
I haven’t been out of the house in a week thanks to the flu so I’m digging into the archives a bit for this one. It’s been a few weeks since Lithia Park looked like this. For now, I’ll just look forward to spring.