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West of the sunrise & Leading Lines

Posted on October 4, 2024

Here are a few photos from this morning . . .I stopped by the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact to grab a coffee on my way to work and decided to take the sky bridge from the Knight Campus to the main campus. The sun was rising and the light was lovely. Plus a memory from high school photography: leading lines.

West of the sunrise, looking east from the skybridge. Knight Campus is the glass building on the left and Franklin Boulevard is below.

The giant oak tree sits on the north edge of campus with the University of Oregon sign near one of the entrances.

Looking back towards Knight Campus from the sky bridge. Yep, leading lines. As I took this photo, a host of memories came back. . .

Categories: campus, oregon, uo

Felling and bucking

Posted on September 27, 2024

Last weekend, I went to my friend Tom’s place to fell and buck up a Douglas Fir tree that he needed to have taken down on his property in the Coast Range. It was tough work. We figured out that the tree was about 35 to 40 years old. The wood will be used to create its second warmth after the physical labor created the first warming of our bodies.

Preparations are underway

It’s down. Tom’s cutting rounds out that we’ll roll down the hill and then we’ll take care of the limbs

Heavy rounds. But they roll. 🙂

Limbs are coming off. We loaded a bunch up and hauled them off to the woods.

Not quite done, but done for the day. A beer was had on the porch after this. Always good to spend time with Tom . . .

Categories: current events, fall, friends, nature, oregon

Addendum

Posted on September 14, 2024

A few extras from my trip to Wyoming. I took a lot of photos and videos and have had a tough time choosing, so here’s the final selection.

Wolves howling on our evening hike in Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park.

A mud spring in Yellowstone. These are mesmerizing to watch (and smell!).

One of the pools in the West Thumb Geyser Basin along the shore of Lake Yellowstone.

This was a great hotel. The proprietor let us use her clothes line in her backyard to hang out and dry our wet tents from camping in Yellowstone. Of course, it’s rated number 1 on “iPad Visor.” I would expect no less! 🙂

Backcountry waterfalls in the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area. This wilderness was simply stunning and I am glad to have seen it.

Seen in the hunting, camping, backpacking store in Cody, Wyoming. I can say that my own children are not wild. I should have read this book! 🙂

The dinosaur museum in Thermopolis, Wyoming housed large beasts, such as this one. It was started by a dentist from Germany who fell in love with Wyoming and started up the museum. He buys bones from digs and has employees who clean them up and then he puts them in the museum. A nice stop after the hot pools.

Late afternoon rainbow in Wyoming on our way to Lander. Stunning scenery! That ends the images of my vacation in Wyoming, 2024.

Categories: travel, wyoming, yellowstone

Heading West – Sacajawea’s grave

Posted on September 13, 2024

From Thermopolis & Dubois, we were going to head up over the mountains to Jackson Hole, but the road was closed due to wildfire. So we headed south to Lander, Wyoming. Lander is a bit of a backpacker’s hub where a lot of hikers land for a bit between trails. It was a nice small western town where we had a nice meal and a rest before moving further west. The trip was a good one. Wyoming will always have a piece of my heart and I look forward to visiting again someday . . . .

This is the memorial to Sacajawea, the woman who travelled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the ocean back in the early 1800s. Her gravesite was nearby.

Indian cemetery seemed so alive with how people added items of importance to the graves to remember their loved one. A sad note was just how young so many of them died. The evening light was beautiful as we visited.

Wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail. The land just goes on forever, it seems.

Categories: travel, wyoming