Southern Oregon University Basketball player Alexi Smith goes to the hoop as the SOU cheerleaders look on
Tonight and tomorrow night the men’s and women’s basketball teams will be playing at home. The Lady Raiders play at 5:30 each night and the men start at 7:30. The opponents are Warner Pacific tonight and Concordia on Saturday night.
In today’s photo, Alexi Smith (averaging about 16 points a game, good for second on the team and fifth in the conference) is sporting a simplified Chinese character for love tattooed on her left arm. 愛 is one of the few characters that can have fewer strokes in Chinese than in Japanese.
This past weekend we headed up Mt. A to do a little snowshoeing. The sky was ridiculously blue, and the temperatures were in the 50s (even though down below in Ashland the temps were barely 40 degrees). We had ourselves a weather inversion (which has since departed).
I just returned from the 2013 celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday in the Ashland Armory and wanted to get this first photo up in case anyone was interested in attending The Bridges Forum at SOU tonight. This will be a panel discussion happening at 6 p.m. in the Rogue River Room in the Stevenson Union Building on campus about accepting and embracing diversity in America. The panel will be composed of SOU Communication Instructor D.L. Richardson, Rabbi Joshua Boettiger, Pastor Kurt Katzmar, Social Sciences Instructor Flamur Vehapi, Philosophy Professor Prakash Chenjeri, and Dr. David Young, member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Baha’is of the United States.
SOU Communication Instructor D.L. Richardson MCing the 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration in the Ashland Armory
A friend was telling me that I would like Major Jones after happening upon them at Roscoe’s BBQ in Phoenix (between Ashland and Medford) one evening. So last night we headed up old Highway 99 to check them out. By the time they played Black Sabbath’s “Fairies Wear Boots” (about their fourth or fifth song of their nearly three hour set) I realized I had a new favorite local band to follow. Their original songs sounded great, and they covered Robin Trower, The Ramones, Cliff Burton-era Metallica (twice), Radiohead, AC/DC, and Motorhead.
(from left to right) Skinny, Matt, Travis, and Kelly of Major Jones
I had given up hope of recording video with a DSLR when the results from my D7000 were so underwhelming. I heard bad things about the audio with the D600 so I hadn’t even bothered to try. However, last night, just for kicks since I could set my camera on a table, I tried taking a couple of short video clips with the default settings and no external mic. The results came out better than my D7000 with an external mic! So now I have to consider actually trying to take decent videos with my Nikon D600 using something better than the default settings and with an external microphone.
Fog in Ashland isn’t rare this time of year. It rolls in; it rolls out. The fog can be pretty, especially when we are perched above it. At night the fog normally can’t be seen even when it is there and we are above it, but for some, unknown reason a couple weeks ago, the fog was glowing. There was no full moon or moon at all. I still don’t know the cause.
