One of the things that makes life interesting is the random things which come our way, and the donkey hood ornament above definitely fits into the random category. There’s just something wonderfully whimsical about having a donkey on your vehicle for all the world to see.
I found it for sale online (note: I have no [...]
Okay, this is the last photo from the duck pond I’ve been featuring the last couple of days. At least for now. It really is a pretty pond.
I couldn’t decide if I like the photo above or the one to the right, so you’re getting both. Don’t say I never gave you anything.
I [...]
I was going to feature a different duck photo today, but I decided to go with this one, instead. I may post the other one tomorrow. Dunno.
The one above was taken at the duck pond I featured yesterday. I hadn’t realized how often ducks either, well, duck either their heads or the upper half of [...]
A fairly new neighborhood off of Fern Ridge Rd. in Stayton has a lovely small pond. I think it’s manmade, but it’s set so well it feels completely natural.
Roughly a bagazillion ducks live at the pond, from mallards to other ducks which aren’t mallards.
You may be thinking the only types of ducks I can identify [...]
In the Stayton Community Center Complex, which houses the city’s pool, community center, and a park. It also has some lovely plants, flowers, and trees, like the one pictured above. I have no clue what type of tree it is, but its leaves and whatever the lighter colored stuff is (seeds?) sure are pretty.
There was [...]
The car above was parked outside a house in Stayton. It’s an early 1950’s Chevrolet DeLuxe (possibly a 1951). I think it’s great to see things like this — it’s a nod to the nation’s past, in a way, since cars are tied to a lot of our country’s way of life, especially during the [...]
This house in Stayton just struck me as being very idealistically American, with the white house, American flag, and manicured plants. It’s right by two elementary schools and a church on a quiet residential street in a small town. I don’t think it had a white picket fence, though. Perhaps I should go back to [...]
Happy first full day of Autumn! Yes, it’s that time of year, when the leaves start to turn colorful shades, like on the oak tree pictured above. It’s also the precursor of winter, which is my least favorite season, but let’s not hold that against it. It’s just doing its job, after all.
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This double reflection is of a lovely early evening sky via the rear view mirrors of my scooter. I was sitting at the top of a hill taking photos of some clouds when I looked down at the mirrors and saw what was behind me.
The smaller mirror shows the outline of part of Stayton’s “skyline” [...]
When I was taking photos of new home construction the other day, I saw the above construction equipment (a backhoe?) silhouetted in some trees, and just thought it was pretty. That’s it. No lamenting of trees being cut down, etc. I’ve done enough of that recently, so I’ll give it a break. For now. [...]
As I was going through the parking lot by an agriculture-oriented store, I spotted the above. The manlift in the photo looks like it was placed there to make sure the clouds don’t fall. They did, anyway, in the form of a bit of rain, which made the plants in my yard happy. And if [...]
I thought I’d throw in one more photo from the festival before we moved on to other things. Today’s photo is of a “mountain man” who demonstrated what it was like to live off the land. It was his mules featured in yesterday’s photo.
The man, Tom Marquette, definitely looked the part. Looking at him, with [...]
Here we have another photo taken at the 5th annual Oregon Covered Bridge Festival, which wrapped up yesterday. These two mules were part of a “mountain man” display, with old fashioned gear, tent, pelts, etc.
The mules’ mother, a Belgian draft horse, was also there, but didn’t seem inclined to pose for the camera — you [...]
This weekend is the Oregon Covered Bridge Festival at Pioneer Park in Stayton, put on by the Covered Bridge Society of Oregon. People come from all over to visit the park’s own Stayton-Jordan Bridge, take a covered bridge bus tour, learn more about the history of Oregon’s covered bridges, and so on. The photo above [...]
Yet another new home is currently under construction in Stayton. This one has me particularly sad because it’s being built where a wooded lot used to be. When I was a kid, a lot of us neighborhood kids would play there in our own little forest. At one point, some of the kids built a [...]
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