The start of a new collage

Mosaic of background scenery

Reed Opera House, Salem

On 2nd Floor is one of the best MExican food places around

Kay Mills Museum in Salem

Inside the Mill

Fountain at Willamette University

Doe this morning at the park entrance

CCC era wall near the swimming area SFSP

Reflection Pool

Silver Falls

Another view of Detroit Lake and Mt. Jefferson

This is Detroit Lake taken with a nicer digital camera...

A Bale Wall waiting for a builder on the way to Sublimity...

More Oregon Checker Mallow

This is the top of a very old Douglas Fir.

I have been finding several lately.

Today I got to drive out to Detroit Lake State Park.

I will do a Natural History program there next month so I went

out to scope out the site.

This is a view of Mt. Jefferson which is in the Cascade Range in Oregon.

This lake is the dammed up North Santiam River.

It was beautiful.

Some tiny Tiger Lilies (inch across) that just bloomed in the meadow above the "Dog-run-free" area


A closer view




Church on Sunday





Art-Deco era wood slats on an Art Deco style Bridge


Silver Falls State Park South Fork of the Silver




I have been thinking alot about the camera that I use to blog most of these pictures . It is my Tracphone cell phone camera and just a step above the $15.00 mini-digital cam that I started out with. The irony is that the cell phone also cost $15.00 from Dollar General in Florida and I can talk on it to people all over the usa.



Both cameras take polaroid quality pictures and I really like them for their simplicity. From time to time I find access to a really nice smallish digital name brand camera and have temporary camera-lust.


Lately a new friend has been teasing me with the possibility of the i-phone and I have pondered briefly leaving pc kingdom to crossover (albeit just for music and photos) to the land of Macfolk.




It is a funny line to cross, me being the proud Luddhite and that little toy teasing me with the ability to hear the latest folk , bluegrass, newgrass, jamband and acoustic music...on demand. And such a nice camera. These are the toys that we justify.




I am loving life here in the Pacific NW and also know that I will return to Ohio for as long as I am needed there , come October. This whole "strange trip" has been yet another remembering of the fact that we always gravitate towards like- minded folks and that which we most love. I have been playing Harmonica again and it is sweet ,sweet therapy.

Makeshift window treatments

Sunset in the Tall Firs

Firewood rounds

My New Band

"Harmonic Convergence"

Oregon Checker Mallow

This was a cool little garden niche I saw on Water Street in Silverton

yesterday. It was a mirror placed flat on the ground but had the effect

(with the blue of the sky) of a small pond amidst alot of succulants and other flowers.

Young Douglas Fir forest

Old Douglas Fir looking up...

Maidenhair Ferns on the Canyon Trail in Silver Falls State Park

Art therapy from yesterday

Hummingbird Flees