Photo taken in August 2008

Ashland’s unique location, between two mountain ranges, provides for some interesting shadows and cloud formations.

Posted on October 15th, 2008 under nature. Tags: clouds, grizzly peak, home, mountains, skywatch. Comments Off on Clouds over Grizzly

The last few days have been very sunny but very cold–Winter cold not Fall cold. The mountains even got a bit of snow (photos coming soon).

This is SOU’s Raider Stadium. SOU had a football game Friday or Saturday night, but it was far too cold to think about going.

Posted on October 13th, 2008 under nature. Tags: clouds, mountains, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Crazy clouds

The sun is about to rise. The 7 a.m. flights from Medford to San Francisco have left their marks on the sky.

Posted on October 8th, 2008 under nature. Tags: clouds, home, mountains, skywatch, sunrise. Comments: 6

Photo taken in February 2005

Mayu (on the right) was our Japanese exchange student we hosted for a month or so a while back. She is shown here with her friend Mika with the Cascade Mountain Range for a backdrop.

Posted on October 5th, 2008 under people. Tags: mountains, valley. Comments: 1

Photo taken in October 2004

Posted on October 4th, 2008 under places. Tags: mountains, mt. shasta, skywatch, valley. Comments: 3

Photo taken October 2004

About an hour to the south of Ashland in the Cascade Mountain Range lies, or rather rises, Mount Shasta. The above photo is from high on the mountain itself. For a more distant view of the famous mountain see these pictures.

Although my son looks to be in pain he is actually quite happy that he has made it up this far.

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 under nature, people, places. Tags: mountains, mt. shasta, people. Comments Off on Mt. Shasta

Photo taken in September of 2004

Not far from Ashland is Squaw Lake, a cute little place which is usually devoid of people. The shores were covered in butterflies the day we visited.

Posted on September 30th, 2008 under nature, places. Tags: clouds, mountains, skywatch, trees, water. Comments: 1

Photo taken in September 2008

Every view is a good one from the SOU football stands. I’ve shown you three others, here and here and here.

The stands aren’t nearly full because this game happened a month before school began. Only the locals were in attendance.

Posted on September 21st, 2008 under people, places. Tags: mountains, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Another view from the stands

My daughter, who was 9 at the time, took this picture through her bedroom window on June 6, 2007. Our mountains are in their transition phase in early June. They aren’t as green as they were a month or two before, but they aren’t nearly as brown as they get later in the summer either.

Posted on September 19th, 2008 under nature. Tags: clouds, home, mountains, trees, valley. Comments Off on Cloudy day