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Archive for March, 2009
A Million Little Bits Of Spring
Mar 31st
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Spring is actually here. Some of the blossom trees have started to bloom around town, and I am officially a happy camper. I’m sure I’ll be posting more blossom photos before they’re through blooming for the season.
Campbell-Grier Cemetery
Mar 30th
(Click here to see my Flickr photoset of the cemetery!)
I took a trip yesterday to the Campbell-Grier Cemetery, which sits just outside of Stayton along Boedigheimer Rd. It’s a lovely little place. If I’d realized it was so close, I would have gone a long time ago.
The cemetery is the burial place of Drury Smith Stayton (see photo at right), the founder and namesake of Stayton. I was only able to spend a few minutes taking photos (it was windy and cold), so I hope to go back soon during better weather.
I had a lot of trouble finding information about the cemetery online. It is also evidently known as Stayton Pioneer Cemetery. I think. USGenWeb has a burial listing up, and it mentions the alternate name, but that’s the pretty much all I could find. If anyone out there knows more, I’d be most grateful if you could leave a comment with the details. I hadn’t even realized it was where Drury Smith Stayton was buried… I came across it by accident.
Be sure to check out my Flickr photoset of the cemetery. It has several more photos from the cemetery.
Press The Red Button
Mar 29th
It’s spring, so by golly, I’m going to post some flower photos, even if I have to buy the flowers first. Which is what I did. This is some sort of daisy, I think. I lost the insert which said what it is.
Upside Down Exclamation Marks
Mar 28th
This is one of the outside walls at the Stayton Family Memorial Pool on W. Virginia St. The windows make me think of large, upside down punctuation. Once again, I am easily amused.
A Nice Place To Take A Break
Mar 27th
It’s time once again for a photo of my favorite Stayton landmark, the Jordan Bridge at Pioneer Park. It’s not my fault it’s so photogenic. But this time the photo is totally different because there’s a person on it talking on a mobile phone! Yes, that makes it completely and totally okay that I last posted a photo of the bridge only a couple of weeks ago.
Early Morning At Wirth Lake
Mar 26th
Guest photographer Hugo sent today’s absolutely beautiful photo. Here’s his description:
This was taken in the early morning hours at Walter L. Wirth Lake in Cascades Gateway Park in Salem. I really liked how the trees faded into the fog, in the background. I spend so much time at the lake that the ducks and geese know my car (and know that I carry 50# bags of cracked corn in the trunk). Whenever I drive up, they come running.
Thanks, Hugo! You rock for answering my request yesterday for a guest photo.
Photo is copyright © Hugo. All rights reserved. Do not copy or reproduce in any way without permission of photographer.
After Effects
Mar 25th
Here’s part two of the train graffiti photos (see also: part one).
The photo at right is a perspective shot of the train itself. Part of it, anyway. It was really long. Click on it to see a bigger version.
Tomorrow I’ll post something non-graffiti related. By the way, I pulled a muscle or twenty in my wrist a couple of days ago, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to go out and take new photos this week. If anyone is interested in being a guest photographer (click here for details), that would be awesome. I’d love you forever. I would name my first born after you, if I had a first born to name. We’d be BFFs and get matching tattoos. Or maybe I’d just thank you profusely here on the blog. Whichever. 
Southern Pacific
Mar 24th
I saw a super spiffy graffiti-covered train parked along Locust St. yesterday, so I stopped to take a few photos. I think I’ll post another tomorrow, since there were several cars on the train, which meant for more graffiti. And I haven’t had time to process some of the photos I took.
The photo at right is a close up of the Whistle Blower tag seen in the image above. There’s a group devoted to his art on Flickr.
Train graffiti is interesting to me because trains travel all over the country, and it’s like a record of the various places they’ve been and who they’ve encountered.
Time To Just Be Myself
Mar 23rd
I seem to be on a “black and white photos of trees” kick. This is one of my favorite oak trees which live behind the hospital.
Stand
Mar 22nd
I haven’t been able to go out and take many pictures lately, so I’m revisiting the farm field on E. Santiam St. I posted a couple of photos from last week. I like trees, so I tend to take photos of them a lot. That’s easy to do in Stayton, since there are a lot of them around.
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