September 2, 2007: Meacham, Umatilla County, OR: It was Labor Day weekend and Chris and I had decided to brave the holiday traffic. We were headed for Dug Bar on the Snake River 30 miles north of Imnaha, Wallowa County, OR. We stopped at the Meacham exit in the …
September 1, 2007: Gresham, Multnomah County, OR: Hearing a call from Nature at 4:15 this morning and realizing that the Aurigid meteor shower was supposed to peak about 4:30 I decided to take Lucy for a nocturnal walk and watch the expected shower of meteors. The night sky was clear, …
August 28, 2007: Cone Mountain, Linn County, OR: Marvin and I were saying farewell to spring. We drove to the parking lot at the base of Iron Mountain and took the Cone Mountain trail. It was a warm late summer day on the calendar but at this elevation spring starts …
August 22, 2007: Round Lake, Marion County, OR: On a spur of the moment Chris and I decided to take a drive into the mountains and check out a seep where we go occasionally to look at wildflowers. This is late in the season so we didn’t expect to find …
August 16, 2007: Slide Lake, Lake County, OR: Slide Lake is located near Slide Mountain at the south end of Winter Rim in the Fremont National Forest. It’s a small lake, I doubt it covers an acre, and shallow with bull rush covering one end. In a few more years …