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Time for another round of Waterfall Wednesday where we celebrate imagery depicting falling water in all of its forms whether its a natural setting or surrounded by concrete. In this case for my offering today its an old image of rapids on Bridal Veil Creek in the Columbia River Gorge just...

Some fall colors in small scenes after a bit of rain. Contrasts Blueberries without the blues C&C always welcome.

I do like gardening but I dislike raising roses so one of my favorite pastimes is to wander around and appreciate Other People's Roses :) This may seem a bit out of season but I shot this the week before last while walking along the sidewalk near my house. I always think of roses as an early...

The John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a bit of an odd duck in the fact that it consists of scattered parcels in the midst of a lot of privately owned land. The units of the national monument were purchased from private individuals by the State of Oregon and subsequently donated to the...

Cascade Locks is near the former site of a major obstacle to shipping on the Columbia River. Table Mountain on the Washington side of the river is a highly unstable mountain that has a habit of sloughing off large scale landslides that have blocked off the Columbia River entirely on occasions...

Good morning - Wednesday is upon us so time for yet another round of falling water imagery. My offering to start thing of this week are a well known set of falls in the Columbia River Gorge from a fall visit a number of years ago - Horsetail Falls. Pile on with your own images of falling...

The grand finale for the color show I got a couple of nights ago. What started out as a potential dud of a sunset turned out to be one of the best this year :) A three panel stitch taken at 70mm. C&C always welcome.

I spotted some interesting looking clouds from my deck last night so I launched my drone with high hopes for a nice sunset. My first view of the skies from above wasn't particularly promising with a big gray cloud covering the sun as it headed for the horizon. Happily I was patient and was...

Its been a while since I had some nice morning color to work with and yesterday made the wait worthwhile. C&C always welcome.

When U.S. freeways got built in the 1950's wholesale terraforming was the order of the day and some of the work that was done is extensive to say the least. This is one example with the case of I-84 near the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge at Rooster Rock State Park. The land that was there...

Wednesday is upon us again so its time for another round of waterfalls. If you have an image showing water demonstrating obedience to gravity it belongs here :) My falls for today are from a fall visit to my favorite trail through the basalts of the Oregon Coast along Sweet Creek. There was no...

The one thing that is really missing in the coastal mountains in Oregon - viewpoints that allow to take in a vista view of the scenery. The dense forests only have openings for views where lumber companies have hauled off all the trees via clear cuts. Ironically this actually only happens on...

A shot from last fall along the Kentucky Creek trail in the Siuslaw National Forest. Good examples of old growth forest in these mountains are hard to find anymore. C&C always welcome.

Its Wednesday so welcome to another round of waterfalls :) My waterfall image today is from a trip last fall deep into the old growth forests of the Oregon Coast Range. This is a view of Kentucky Falls from the edge of the creek heading downstream from the base of the falls. There is another...

One of the late flowering plants in our garden are Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) which are just now starting their bloom cycle. Other names for this plant are garden cosmos, Mexican aster, or cosmea. This set of blooms is from last fall. C&C always welcome.

A few evening colors in the clouds from last week. C&C always welcome.

Colchicum autumnale looks enough like a crocus that it is called Autumn Crocus in spite of not being part of the crocus family at all. This plant is often called naked ladies or naked boys due to the fact that the blooms emerge well before the leaves appear. In spite of the fact that my wife...

Another Wednesday and another round of the beauty to be found in falling water :) My falls for today are from a stroll last fall along Sweet Creek in the Siuslaw National Forest. This cluster of falls are best with a medium flow of water just before the rainy season like what you see in this...

A couple of summers ago I "inherited" my wife's garden in our backyard after squirrels destroyed her watering system and health concerns forced her to step away from working on it. It took a couple of months but I managed to resurrect the watering system and we removed all of the bird feeders...

Up until this past summer flying a drone in an Oregon State Park was generally allowed with the exception of crowded venues and wildlife habitats but that access has come to an end. Oregon Parks held a series of public meetings and solicited comments regarding the use of drones in the parks and...