New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro (Talent, Oregon – September 2020)

Posted on September 15th, 2025 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: fire, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on Five years ago…

Mt. Ashland and Bear Creek from the greenway

I took a ride on the Bear Creek Greenway yesterday and discovered this view. I’ve ridden (or, less frequently, walked) the greenway dozens of times over the past 20 years, maybe over a hundred. But I’ve never noticed this view before. Was it always there and I just missed it? Or did last September’s Almeda Fire allow it to be seen? I don’t know, but I’m glad to have finally found it.

Posted on April 20th, 2021 under nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: Bear Creek Greenway, biking, fire, landscape, mt. ashland, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on “New” view of Mt. Ashland

Mt. Ashland and the Almeda Fire from the Bear Creek Greenway

The Greenway has been far from green, until the last few days, since the Almeda Fire back in September. This area has been completely black for five months. But nature is healing itself and spring is on the way.

Posted on February 25th, 2021 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: Bear Creek Greenway, fire, mt. ashland, NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 S lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on Nature making a comeback

Talent, Oregon after the Almeda fire

#AlmedaFire #OregonFires #wildfires

Posted on October 6th, 2020 under outside of ashland. Tags: fire, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on Crystal healing

#AlmedaFire #GlendowerFire #OregonFires

Today’s photo comes from Ashland Pond, looking west, less than 48 hours after the Almeda Fire began a couple hundred feet behind this location. The fire headed northwest, blown by strong winds, from here and destroyed much of Talent and Phoenix in the subsequent 16 hours or so.

Posted on September 12th, 2020 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: Bear Creek Greenway, fire, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on Almeda Fire

Almeda Fire sunset from Ridge Road in Ashland (September 8, 2020)

The smoke was from hundreds of homes burning in Talent and Phoenix.

Posted on September 11th, 2020 under only in ashland. Tags: fire, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, sunset. Comments Off on Sunset on the evening of the start of the Almeda Fire

Ashland Pond (September 10, 2020)

#AlmedaFire #GlendowerFire #OregonFires

One of my favorite places to visit in town is located close to the origin of the horrific Almeda Fire that began on September 8, 2020 and razed over 600 homes, mostly in Phoenix and Talent, Oregon.

I rode my bike down Almeda Drive and Glendower Street today, like many times before, but everything is different. The homes are all still there, and there doesn’t appear to be any damage to the structures, but the fields nearby are a wasteland coated in inches of ash.

Here is a photo of Ashland Pond from less than five months ago.

Posted on September 10th, 2020 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: Bear Creek Greenway, fire, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on Ashland Pond after the Almeda Fire

Alder Springs Trail (Central Oregon)

Today’s photo comes from a hike we did this past Labor Day Weekend. We were in Bend. This trail was great, although getting there was not easy. Not recommended on a hot day or if you don’t have 4-wheel drive. Follow directions on the internet, not Google maps for finding the trail head. Google will send you down the wrong road and cost you at least an extra half an hour. Even when we got on the correct road, Google sent us down a couple of dead ends.

Back to why I’m sharing this photo… Ashland is on fire at the moment (later note: Almeda Fire as it came to be known), and this photo has a bit of that feel to it.

Posted on September 8th, 2020 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: fire, hike, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, trees. Comments Off on Alder Springs Trail

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.

Posted on August 26th, 2014 under outside of ashland. Tags: fire, Samsung SM-G900V Galaxy S5 cell phone camera. Comments Off on 790 fire from Sevenmile Rd