A stroll through the Trinity Alps
Today’s photo is from the archives, July of 2009 to be exact. Without a person or two in this photo you don’t get the sense of just how tall these trees were in Northern California.
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Near Brown Mountain
Forest between "Lake of the Woods" and Brown Mountain - Southern Oregon
Today’s photo is from late summer of last year when I did the Brown Mountain Trail–a trail which doesn’t actually go up Brown Mountain at all.
Monkey Tree on B Street
We have a few Monkey Puzzle Trees in Ashland. We also have one, plain-ol’ Monkey Tree, pictured above.
I’ve been watching the number of monkeys in this tree grow over the past year, but I’ve never had my camera with me. Since the number of stuffed monkeys continued to increase, I figured this wasn’t a temporary situation, and I was going to wait until the leaves came on the tree this spring for photos. However, in the local paper a few days ago this story was published so I figured I had to grab some pics now or I may never have the chance.
This tree reminds me of the pacifier tree near Copenhagen, Denmark in Frederiksberg Have. Are there any trees bearing unusual fruit where you live?
Another pic of one of my favorite trees
I have shown you this tree at least twice now, but it looks different every time I go for a walk on Ridge Road.
Christmas tree
Real pine cones on our Christmas tree this year!
As mentioned previously, we cut down our own tree this year. The best part of this year’s tree is it includes pine cones–real pine cones, still attached pine cones.
Picking the perfect tree (or A Natural Flocking)
Christmas Trees at U-Cut Christmas Tree Farm on the border of Phoenix and Medford, Oregon covered in hoarfrost
We cut down our Christmas tree this past Sunday. The temperature was 28 degrees in the early afternoon and the fog was rather thick. The trees were covered in fog freeze. Even after driving home to Ashland and letting the tree sit out in the sun for the rest of the day the tree was still covered in hoarfrost. We finally brought it in before dark and stood the tree up over a bunch of towels in our living room. It sounded like it was raining in our house for the next half hour as the fog freeze finally melted.
Rainbow maple tree
Japanese maple in autumn
The Japanese Maple trees in our backyard are completely orange now. But for a day or two last week they were experiencing four colors at once (green, yellow, orange, and red).
Birch trees in the fall
Birch trees on Ridge Road in Ashland, Oregon in autumn
I went for a fall photo shoot in Lithia Park on Sunday. Most trees aren’t at their peak yet, but some are. On my way home, as I headed down Ridge Rd., I looked up at the above birches trying unsuccessfully to completely block out the blue sky. I get a bit nostalgic around birch trees as we had three in my front yard as I was growing up.
Mt. Shasta from Mt. Ashland
Dusk settles in over Mount Shasta
Mt. Shasta is the wrong direction to watch the sunset from Mt. Ashland, but this is what it can look like at dusk from the northwest. I still need to get up there to see what it looks like at sunrise.
Dusk hiking on Grizzly Peak
Hiking Grizzly Peak at dusk
Last night we went for a little hike on Grizzly Peak and timed it so that we’d get to the side facing Ashland about the time the sun went down. The views were even better than I had imagined, and the way back down in the dark (we had flashlights and headlamps) wasn’t bad either.
The stars from the Grizzly Peak Trail parking lot were amazing too. The Milky Way was clearly visible, and it wasn’t cold.