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A December Excursion
Saturday morning, I installed a fresh tire on the front of the bike, a match to the new knobby I put on the rear last weekend, complete with ice screws. Now that I was ready for Winter, the temperatures had risen above freezing. ...
Throwback Thursday – The Solstice Tree
Walter, Andy and I decorated a random tree out in the woods on Solstice Day. The snow was deep and it took us several attempts to get up the ridge. We tried Pinemont Road and I got stuck. Even with chains on his KLR, my brother didn't make it...
Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 3
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 It was early afternoon but it seemed much later. The sky was dark and the clouds came right down to the pavement in torrents. Water streamed across every flat surface, cold and black and dirty. When we got to Corvallis we...
Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 2
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Just before Seal Rock, we turned left onto Beaver Creek Road. We rode several miles up into the hills before we came to the farm where the party was. A steep muddy driveway led from the road into...
Spotted from the truck
Mike and I were out poking around the forest with my dogs Sunday. We found one good chanterelle, some witches butter and a bunch of soggy mush. Snow level in the Columbia Gorge has dipped below 2000'. We stumbled into some...
Good Morning
4/19/26 6:30 45F (7.2C) Calm, temperate, mostly cloudy. Thin, grey clouds shift above me. Song birds trill. A duck flys low overhead. Somewhere a woodpecker is tapping. A dove coos. A turkey calls nearby. A shotgun blast. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
4/18/26 7:00 38F (3.3C) Wisps of white clouds stretch across blue sky. No wind. Sprayers whine and orchard fans rumble in the distance. The sun climbs over Snakehead Ridge but hasn't quite lit the canyon floor. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
4/17/26 7:00 37F (2.7C) Calm and quiet. I slept late this morning, clinging to dreams which faded and disappeared as soon as I opened my eyes. Patches of white clouds decorate the blue sky. Birds trill sweetly. A dove coos. Squirrels chatter as...
Good Morning
4/16/26 6:00 34F (1C) Cold, partial clearing, no wind on the ground. The temperature has dropped. Orchard fans are thrumming. It rained all day yesterday and through a good deal of the night. There is snow on the hills up behind the house. We actually...
Good Morning
4/15/26 6:00 46F (7.7C) Cool, wet, and gray. A slight breeze wags the birch catkins and flutters the sodden ribbons at the tips of the lodgepoles. It is raining hard. I can barely hear the birds singing over the steady tattoo of raindrops. Perhaps it...
