Northwest Aurora

I’ve only seen the Aurora Borealis once. I was flying home from Alaska and I looked out the window of the riveted dual prop plane to see green and yellow ribbons of light dancing in the sky. I still feel like I was imagining it. Given that it was nearly 20 years ago, I’m not …


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Two Pictures from Oregon

Left: Fern Ridge reservoir, drained for winter. Right: Mural in Springfield.

The Names of Things

I should know the names of the trees by now, but I do not. I can’t tell the hemlock from the spruce and the only deciduous trees I can truly recognize are the big leaf maples, because they are easy. Oh, the lodge pole pine, I know the lodge pole pine because of the smell …


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Stuff I Liked in Portland, Oregon

We forget how easy it is to buzz down I-5 to our sister city to the South. But I had been invited to check out the Governor Hotel’s “Sherlock” package — a night in the hotel, a credit at the restaurant/bar downstairs, a deerstalker cap, and passes to the Sherlock show at OMSI — the …


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