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Earliest Sunset

Posted on December 13, 2025

We’ve passed the day of the sun setting at its earliest here at 44.05º North. That day was December 10th and now the sun begins to set a tad bit later, which is always welcome. The chart below was done by my pal Whitey Lueck. On his site, he explains it a bit better’n me, but we often nod in recognition of this day. Solstice is nigh! Other things that have been going on are below . . . Cheers! Whitey’s chart / graph of sunrise and sunset times here in Eugene during the winter months. I have this on my wall in my office and I look at it regularly during this time of the year. I was visited by these creatures while…

Evidence of participation & old friends

Posted on November 9, 2025

I ran in the Silver Falls Half Marathon last weekend and a photo shows evidence of participation. Plus last night we went to a lovely house concert with our long time and former teaching pal, Tom Rawson and his wife, Ellen van der Hoeven. Look – it’s a couple of bald fellas! The cool thing about this race is you get to run behind two waterfalls in the canyon. The race was fun, save for the yellowjacket sting on my elbow . . .but even that wasn’t that bad . . . Bald is beautiful. Tom is a lovely guy, and a classic folk musician.

JF, EK & The Good Rain

Posted on October 27, 2025

Friday evening Jeffrey Foucault and his pal Erik Koskinen came to town to play a show. They were joined on drums by JT Bates and the show was fantastic. As it always is. Erik played a baritone guitar to add some low notes to the set. For those playing at home, the tuning on this is: B-E-A-D-F#-B, which is a fourth lower than a standard guitar tuning. It’s always fun watching the musicians communicate and banter wordlessly with each other throughout the set as well. Plus a run in the good rain. It’s back. Fills me up! Starting out one of Jeffrey’s songs . . . . there is often laughter involved . . . On the bridge that goes over the Willamette River,…

June = graduation, running, & family

Posted on June 13, 2025

June has struck! We have a graduate and I’ve been running a good bit lately in a local trail series. This will come to an end near the end of the month as travel ensues for a bit. Jonah graduated from South Eugene High School last week! It was a good ceremony and now summer is here . . . My brother, Jonah’s Uncle Larry, came down from Seattle for the events. It was good to have him with us for these several days. I’ve been running in the Emerald City Trail Series again this year up on and near Mt. Pisgah. The races are on Thursday evenings, with distances as short as 3.7 miles and as long as 8 miles. Once again, they…

Birthday & running

Posted on April 29, 2025

It’s been a while! Finally I am getting around to posting some new images of late. Yes, I had a birthday which corresponded with the Eugene Marathon. We had 14,000 runners doing all three races: 5k, half-marathon and marathon. Plus I went around the sun once more. This time I decided to run 61 kilometers over 6 days: 10k per day for five days and 11k on the sixth. Yes, I was tired by the end of the week. I still am. 🙂 Some photos below My running pal Molly and I working the Big Timber Running Club’s booth at the Marathon Expo. At kilometer 60, a nice runner took a group photo of me with the UO Noon Runners group. We run every…