February 5, 2025 (Ashland, Oregon)

Posted on March 18th, 2025 under only in ashland. Tags: home, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, snow, winter. Comments Off on 2025 snowpocalypse

Emigrant Lake from Songer Butte Trail (March 2024)

Posted on March 9th, 2025 under nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: clouds, emigrant lake, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, skywatch. Comments Off on A year ago…

Southern Oregon University – February 11, 2025

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Posted on February 27th, 2025 under only in ashland. Tags: campus, football, grizzly peak, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, Raider Athletics, signs, snow, Southern Oregon University, winter. Comments Off on February football practice

February 4, 2025 – Ashland, Oregon

Our home is a couple hundred feet above the bottom of town so we tend to get an inch or two of snow when other parts of town get little or nothing. However, in our 25 years, we haven’t ever had (although 2017 and 2021 had some fairly big dumps) as much as we got earlier this month. It’s still melting. Ironically, the major storm wasn’t predicted, and just a week before we were wondering whether this would be one of those years were we don’t get any snow.

Posted on February 23rd, 2025 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: home, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, snow, winter. Comments Off on Heavy snow

View above and across Lithia Park

Posted on February 13th, 2025 under only in ashland. Tags: grizzly peak, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, snow, winter. Comments Off on Looking northeast around sunset

Tsukubai in Ashland’s Japanese Gardens

I mentioned before about how Ashland’s Japanese Garden in Lithia Park reminds me of Ryoanji in Kyoto, Japan. I didn’t notice this tsukubai (stone washbasin) in my earlier visits, but I did this past November as I thought I saw a similar one in Ryoanji. After searching through some old photos, I found my picture of the Ryoanji tsukubai and sure enough, this one in Ashland is an exact replica of the 17th century stone in Kyoto.

The characters combine with the square in the middle to spell out 吾唯足知 Ware tada taru wo shiru (I only know contentment).

Posted on February 6th, 2025 under lithia park. Tags: lithia park, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, signs. Comments Off on つくばい

Southern Oregon University flags @ half-staff for former President Jimmy Carter

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Posted on January 9th, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: campus, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on National day of mourning following the death of former President Jimmy Carter

Blitzen (January 2024)

He’s licking his lips
And checking it twice…

Posted on January 7th, 2025 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: christmas, home, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, snow, wildlife, winter. Comments Off on The one that got away…

December 2024

I’ve been on Ridge Road hundreds of times in the past 24+ years, but this is the first time I saw it from this location–across Lithia Park walking along the TID near Hearts Nature Trail.

Posted on January 5th, 2025 under only in ashland. Tags: grizzly peak, hike, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50. Comments Off on Ridge Road with Grizzly Peak in the background