During sound sleep deep in the night while staying at the Malheur Field Station last winter something whacked me on the forehead as if I had been struck a blow with a walking cane. And I heard an authoritative voice command, “Wake up!” The bedroom was as dark as midnight …
What is it? A botanist looking at the flower might say Helenium hoopesii, Dugalia hoopesii or Hymenoxys hoopesii depending on the age of the book they had been reading (name changes)… while an entomologist looking at the butterfly might hedge and say Fritillary, Speyeria ssp. but both might consider animal …
One of my favorite drives is the road (Hwy 224) along the Clackamas River from Estacada toward Detroit… this time of year the road is still closed because of snow… the road past the Ripplebrook Guard Station is not maintained during the winter. There is no cell phone coverage after …
While in Burns the other day I visited the BLM office west of town. I was looking for a good road map of Harney county, not a highway map like most places have to hand out. Used to be BLM maps were free but now they use them as a …
Saturday night we went to a Grange meeting at Fern Hill, a rural community five miles south of Rainier, Columbia County, Oregon. After the meeting it was snowing outside and driving home through the swirling flakes brought back some memories of when it used to snow a lot more. Some …