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: None

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: None

Southern Oregon University – February 11, 2025

@SOU_Football @SOUAshland

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

Deer, tennis, and an igloo (February 8, 2025 – Ashland, Oregon)

…we had one of the oddest scenes out our back window.

Posted on February 26th, 2025 under only in ashland. Tags: deer, home, Nikon Z 50, snow, Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 DI III VXD Lens, wildlife, winter. Comments Off on 18 days ago…

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

Ashland snow storm (February 2025)

Posted on February 15th, 2025 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: NIKKOR Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S lens, Nikon Z 50, snow, winter. Comments Off on Still waiting for this year’s false spring…

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

Glitterfox with Shook Twins

Posted on January 25th, 2025 under only in ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, glitterfox, Historic Ashland Armory, Nikkor Z DX 24mm f/1.7 lens, Nikon Z 50, shook twins. Comments Off on Glitterfox and Shook Twins @ Ashland Armory last week