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As mentioned yesterday, it was a good cloud day, offering great scenery for my six hour drive from Ashland, Oregon to Palo Alto, California. In Palo Alto I met up with a friend who I hadn’t seen in over 30 years.
As mentioned a week or so ago, I headed down to California last week. The sunrise on the morning of my departure was rather stellar.
The clouds were nice all morning in fact. I’ll show you how they looked with Mt. Shasta (about an hour south of Ashland) later on the same day in tomorrow’s entry.
After several days in a row of little or no sun last week, it was nice to look out the window one afternoon and see some blue sky breaking through some white, fluffy clouds. With the Japanese Maples still pretending it is fall and the pines remaining as green as ever, this presented the viewer with a cornucopia of color. There was even snow on the mountains to offset the colors with some whiteness.
At the corner of Terrace Street and Ashland Loop Road I noticed some unusual, swirly clouds blending nicely with the curves in this person’s driveway. The fall foliage looked nice too but didn’t come out so much in this photo.
This is, of course, the same view I’ve posted a couple dozen times, at least, before. Every day it’s different though.
Today’s photo is from halftime at yesterday’s AMS football game.
The vineyard in yesterday’s photo is in today’s photo on the mountainside on the left side of this picture.
I went to a party at a friend’s house last weekend. The rain stopped an hour or two before, and things were looking really pretty from his deck.
This is basically the reverse view of yesterday’s photo which showed the Cascades from the Siskiyous. This is the Siskiyou Mountain Range from the base of the Cascades.
I love it when the sky does this. This is the view from home. The mountains are known as the Western Cascades.
The skies were gray all day long, but they cleared a bit near the end of the day when I took this photo of Crater Lake from near Sentinel Rock. Unfortunately, my memory of this location is not a good one as our bikes had just been stolen. How can bikes you are riding get stolen you ask?
As mentioned before the day had its low points. The ride was about twice as long as anticipated and after 20 miles my legs began to cramp. A few miles later we hitched a ride and hid our bikes off the road with the intention of getting a ride to our car, driving our car back, and picking up the bikes. All went as planned until we got back and found the bikes missing. A dishonest someone must have seen us hiding the bikes. 🙁
The only silver lining is that my bike was in need of an overhaul anyway, and Ryan is getting too tall for his.
As I walked out of the Ashland Recycling Center on Water Street the other day I had the above view. I like the empty box car over the mini tunnel. These same tracks eventually turn into this scene.
The Ashland Recycling Center is right next to a skateboard/bike park. I’m guessing that is where the biker in the tunnel is about to go.