Located in Oregon, USA, featuring Stayton and other nearby towns in the Willamette Valley.
nature
Abundance
Sep 1st
How about a random shot of some random Queen Anne’s Lace growing wild in a random field somewhere here in town? I took it last week, and I can’t remember where I took it. Not that it matters, since one can find this stuff growing all over the place around here. I love it… very pretty.
What Happens When You Let Nature Do The Landscaping
Aug 23rd
Guest photographer John Brandt took today’s photo (click on the photo to be taken to his Flickr photo page with more information). His description:
This is the strip between the library parking lot and the small cluster of businesses to the north. Nearly everything here is invasive (check notes) and the natives are all volunteer. I didn’t see any English ivy or Himalayan blackberries but I bet it’s there. I’d expect a feral cat population has colonized a space like this. Just to the left of this photo is a set of steps that takes local walkers from the parking lot to the upper businesses.
I can’t tell one plant from another, let alone what is and is not native, so this is extra interesting to me. Thanks, John.
Turn Towards The Light
Aug 16th
I know I already posted a sunflower in the last week, but this one is different, in that I managed to get the whole flower in the shot this time. I tried the last time, but it was up above my head and I was shooting blindly. This time it was down where I could get to it.
I took this photo on E. Hollister St. I think.
Crazed With The Love Of Light
Aug 11th
I would be remiss if I let August go by without posting at least one sunflower photo. I took this at the edge of a yard across from Pioneer Park a week or two ago, then promptly forgot about it until yesterday. I’m good at forgetting. It’s a gift.
Orange Swirl
Aug 9th
Yep, a sunset. It wasn’t intentional, but I happened by this scene, and I had to take pictures. It would be wrong if I didn’t.
I took this on the corner of 3rd Ave. and Fern Ridge Rd.
Just The Two Of Us
Aug 6th
I’ve been ill this week, so going out and taking pictures hasn’t been working out. I took this in mid-July at Campbell-Grier Cemetery just outside of town.
Life On Planet Earth
Jul 28th
Queen Anne’s Lace grows wild around here, and it’s one of my favorite flowers. It’s even spiffier when a bee (unless it’s a hoverfly, but it really looks like a bee to me) makes an appearance.
I took this at the edge of a field on 10th Ave.
Snag
Jul 27th
Guest photographer John Brandt took today’s photo of a dead tree (or part of a tree) in Wilderness Park he doesn’t expect to survive another winter.
I haven’t been through that park in some time. I really need to do it again very soon. Once the temperature cools down a bit, that is.
Dot Dot Dot
Jul 25th
I passed by flowering ground cover being watered the other day, so I stopped to get a picture. I didn’t have the right lens with me to get what I was really after, but this will do.
Won’t You Come And Wash Away The Rain
Jul 23rd
I took this the other night at Campbell-Grier Cemetery, just outside of Stayton. The silhouette is part of a metal decoration of a girl holding up a flower. That flower looks like a sun in silhouette, which made me think of the song “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden, which led to using part of the lyrics for the title of this post. Which is really more information than you needed, but what are ya gonna do.
In other news, I have a couple more guest photographers’ photos to post, once I get organized to do that. So if you’re waiting for me to do it, I apologize. You wouldn’t believe the week I had yesterday.
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