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

@SOUAshland @SOUadmissions

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

Snake in Devil’s Lake (Oregon)

2025 is the year of the snake beginning today in Japan. China has to wait a few more weeks.

Posted on January 1st, 2025 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, wildlife. Comments Off on Year of the Snake

Ashland, Oregon – December 2024

Today’s photo comes from a short hike we did a bit over a week ago on the west side of Lithia Park. We were on the TID (AKA “ditch trail”) between the Granite Street Trail and Hearts Nature Trail. (More on hiking in this area can be found here.) The scene looked as if someone threw lit candles dripping with hot wax at this tree.

Posted on December 28th, 2024 under nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: hike, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, trees. Comments Off on Hot wax tree

December 25, 2020

The white house where the rainbow ends dates from the 19th Century. The current owner’s mother, Clara Fader, died recently at the age of 107 after living in that house for 80 years!

Posted on December 17th, 2024 under only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: christmas, grizzly peak, landscape, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, rainbow. Comments Off on Christmas Rainbow