Nora O'Dea on Resophonic Mandolin for Intuitive Compass

Intuitive Compass playing some tunes after the Ashland Halloween Parade

Wyatt Yurth's zombie on banjo for Intuitive Compass

I’m not normally a huge fan of bluegrass music (even though Intuitive Compass’s strand of bluegrass is more than a bit twisted), but after the Ashland Halloween Parade I enjoyed listening to Intuitive Compass, who set up in the middle of the normally busy street on the Ashland Plaza. Perhaps it was the beer, or the costumes, or Wyatt Yurth’s resemblance to Mikael Akerfeldt; all I know is I felt very good at the time.

Zombie Daniel Wyatt playing the stand-up bass for Intuitive Compass

Posted on November 4th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: halloween, music, parade, plaza. Comments Off on Intuitive Compass – Zombie Gypsy Punk from Ashland

SOPride.org Parade 2011 heads into Ashland's plaza

Beth Coye, author of My Navy Too, served as parade Grand Marshal.

Southern Oregon University students march in SOPride Parade 2011

Posted on October 6th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: parade, plaza, SOPride, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOPride.org Parade 2011 (6 of 7)

Just another photo from my pre-dawn photos I took a few weeks back. This one is from the plaza in downtown Ashland looking up Siskiyou Blvd. towards the Ashland Springs Hotel which you can see in the distance.

Posted on September 15th, 2010 under only in ashland, places. Tags: national register of historic places, night photography, plaza. Comments: 1

This photo is from the 2008 parade. If you get tired of looking at costumes you can always check out the fall foliage. For some of my 2009 Halloween photos (not of Ashland since I’m living in Tokyo for the year) click here.

Posted on October 31st, 2009 under lithia park, only in ashland. Tags: halloween, people, plaza. Comments: 2

Continuing the series I began a couple weeks ago, here are some downtown businesses long before they opened for the day.

Another photo of The Black Sheep can be found here.

If you have a large screen, click on the image for a bigger view so you can see your options with Noah’s River Adventures. Do you want to go down the Rogue River, Klamath River, or Salmon River today?

Posted on September 2nd, 2009 under only in ashland, places. Tags: buildings, night photography, plaza, signs. Comments: 1

Being in the parade provided a unique vantage point for taking pictures. I’ve shown you The Black Sheep before, but it is funner this way with dozens of people in front of it, smiling at you, as you go down the parade route in a truck pulling a float.

Posted on July 8th, 2009 under people, places. Tags: buildings, July 4, plaza. Comments Off on The Black Sheep on the Fourth of July

The Black Sheep, like Omar’s, is an Ashland icon. Fashioned like a British pub, you can play darts, make calls from a London-style phone booth, or just enjoy an English beer or meal. On Sundays they have Celtic music. I’ve actually been to the Black Sheep twice in the past couple weeks. I’ve never been in Louie’s (bottom left), but I’m guessing it, and the Black Sheep, were quite crowded last night for St. Patty’s Day.

The building the Black Sheep is in is more than a hundred years old (130 years next year to be exact). The Cafe sign on the side of it isn’t that old but I’m guessing it is several decades old. The heraldic banners you see in this picture are all over town, especially the plaza area, because of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Posted on March 18th, 2009 under only in ashland, places. Tags: buildings, plaza, signs. Comments: 3

Today’s entry goes along with this one from last week. For easier reading, try clicking on the image.

Posted on March 11th, 2009 under lithia park, only in ashland. Tags: plaza, signs. Comments: 3

On the plaza sits these enticing “natural Lithia water” fountains. Don’t they look inviting? For kicks, on a hot summer day I should stand nearby and take pictures so you could see the looks on tourist faces when they sample the natural water. Let’s just say that no one who samples this water once tries it again.

Posted on March 6th, 2009 under only in ashland, places. Tags: plaza. Comments: 3