Oregon Randy

I saw a BOBCAT today!
I'm going to be buzzing about this for a while... 🤩

If not this, then wut???

Sashay and slay in your kinky boots!

LOL

The colors of the last sunlight paint the loops and bands of the plume from the Vandenberg launch of the evening of February 14, 2026. Golds and blues dominate the color of the lighting in different parts of the plume depending on their altitude and proximity to the Earth shadow edge. This edge is lined with a spectral gradations of filtered sunlight going from white to yellow to orange and deep red. In places a bright blue glow dominates, perhaps from the colors most efficiently 'forward scattered' from the full spectrum sunlight upon the highest portions. This photograph is from a tripod mounted Canon SLR with an exposure of 3.2 seconds at ISO 1000 at F5.6. This is thus brighter and more colorful than the eye saw it but the detail and color are real. Think of it as a form of wide angle Astrophotraphy.

The Vandenberg launch of February 14th, 2026 was optimally timed for illumination of the initial as well as the lingering plume. Tonight this plume underwent intriguing looping and stretching as Earths shadow passed across it with reds, golds and blues dominating the last lighting here and there.

From chaos to radio silence: How ICE tactics changed in weeks leading to Homan announcement In recent days, observers have noticed a shift in methods.

ICE observers in Minnesota are skeptical about the White House's claims of a federal drawdown.

But they have noticed in recent weeks a shift from aggressive street sweeps in Minneapolis to instead target people in the suburbs or quietly waiting in unmarked vehicles of residential areas.

ICE Activity Tracker - Community Safety Alert System Anonymous community-driven tool to report and track ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity. Help protect undocumented immigrants and their families by sharing real-time safety alerts.

I wish they could colab w/ www.iceinmyarea.org for people to use. Is there already an app for that?
It would probably need to be a state app tho. Heat maps etc.

I'm so glad it's designated a wildlife preserve. And unlikely to garner any federal scrutiny. As such, the "mausoleum" owner has restrictions on access and further development.

I do strongly wish that freeing people did not have to rely on individual action, case by case. If only there were some other way. 🙄
Thank you for stepping up to do what you can.

On my big monitor, I can see at least a couple on the way up.

When the wind died down from the ocean I could hear them arguing. 📢
With the doors gone, they have been inside too. Pew. I feel sorry for the people trying to do rehab work out there. No lie, I'd do it too, if I had the chance.

A view far away from shore, surrounded by ocean, a tall rocky outcrop sits with a lone lighthouse atop it. The main image has the lighthouse subject centered and framed on the upper left, below, and to the direct right by silhouetted conifer limbs that are not in focus. The lighthouse and the ocean is in focus through the tree limbs. The rocky outcrop has surging white sea water around it's edges from waves hitting it frequently. The lighthouse and rock are lit from the left, with contrasting shadows on the right. The color of the ocean is a light slate blue with a lot of texture from many choppy waves. The rocky outcrop looks a warmer tone than the surrounding ocean, and much darker. The lighthouse shows small areas of sharp contrast that are painted, and the light tower can be seen, but no actual light to be seen. This is "Terrible Tilly", the Tillamook Rock Light. Over a mile off shore from the tall headland called Tillamook Head in the State of Oregon on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, where this picture was taken from. It is a decommissioned, and abandoned lighthouse. It is a protected area for seabirds and sea lions, as well as the surrounding ocean for it's critical abundant sealife underwater.

A close up of a rugged tall rocky outcrop above crashing ocean waves all around it's base. The waves action in the water makes the frequently hit areas a giant white. Choppy white capped waves march by it in the background. The rocky outcrop has a low gentle slope up from the water on it's left. And this slope, as well as any other more flat area is covered in sea lions laying around on a day with rough seas. The section of taller rock at the top of a cliff on the right of the outcrop has a lighthouse at it's top. The base of the lighthouse is square, and dinghy white. At it's center is another dirty white square above the main roof, with the actual lighthouse light beacon round tower on top of that. The lighthouse has a dark rusty color, with no paint, just weathered metal. No glass is left in the windows of the beacon room. Windows on the lower main building appear to be sealed and the same weathered stained white color. At the visible left facing side of the 1st floor, between the evenly spaced blocked windows is a dark doorway into the interior. In front of it on a poured solid concrete pad, many more seals laying about. There is actually a staircase visible coming from the lower rock ramp, up to the right corner of the concrete pad. All those seals up top had to climb the many rock stairs (and will have to go down them too). If you look carefully you can see at least two on their way up! Just below the corner of the top pad where the stairs join it is a dark little building, square like the one at top, but more stout like a bunker. It's door is missing too, with only the black entrance visible. And on it's flat roof? More seals!

Amazing to see it painted and the light glass intact. This looks like a painted photo.
Looks like I'm doing some Terrible Tilly Internet rabbit hole diving tonight. As well as my archive... Here's 2 from a blustery, muddy hike.
I love working with telephoto.
#Sealions 🦭🦁

Possibly due to heavy editing for this image early in my astro/landscape experience. It took some work to get this presentable, even with the bit of planning I knew to do back then.
Driving all night to get there probably didn't help...🤪
If we never try, we never learn!

Being at Scott and Greg's, I hear them at night all the time here!

🪳🤎

It's the brightness being oversaturated. Partly due to settings, and part due to environmental conditions. High clouds aided with the star exaggeration of color and size. Then the time exposure and higher ISO did the rest.

OMG, I have to remember to train mine for that.

Yes, and yes. A lady friend who was a bartender really hated the latter, because of the former. 😆

People are still doing that? (facepalm)

To prepare for some baby seal scooting, here are 5 minutes of the 15% Crescent moon scooting across the sky.

Well, it is!

It's incredibly corrosive to the ability of agencies (and society at large) to operate if the executive branch can simply decide to ignore Congress. Having reliable processes is essential to operations of bureaucracies, but Vought et al. don't care. And it's outrageous.

As in, the long list of capitulators to the current US regime.

Stinky and sploopy! Cool!

LOL Oh Sirius has a little dimple in the middle of it! Oopsie!
Darn image artifacts! Looks like I've got some cosmetic mopping up to do...😅

She was always going on about 'Everyone should be eating vegan replicated food!', so no one missed her.

That's some good TV right there. 😆

A photo of a lightly clouded night sky with stars over a artificially lit hill, with dry wild grasses and sagebrush in the foreground. The sky shows some brilliant stars. The brightest is near the top of the hill at about the halfway point of the image, and it is the brightest star in the entire sky, Sirius - The Dog Star! Above Sirius, and to the right a bit of center all the way to the top of the image is the brilliant constellation Orion. It's very red supergiant star Betelgeuse is at the upper left of the constellation. The rest of the sky shows some very diffuse clouds blocking some of the stars. Where the clouds are not present, the stars are many and easy to see. The hill below the stars has a yellow cast to it's color, and shows signs of layering to it's form, with some bands of lighter colored strata. The hill is composed of volcanic ashes and ancient lake deposits. Small dark shrubs can be seen peppering some of the sides of the hill. Below the hill, and closer to the viewer, in about the bottom third of the image, is a dried out assortment of native wild grasses, and clumps of sagebrush throughout the foreground.

Okay, one last bonus #Scape for the day!
This was from the lower left pocket of Oregon, near The Pillars or Rome. I stopped there after driving all night to capture the Pillars at dawn, but the night sky had me busy too!
Here's #Orion over an ashen hill.
#📷 #Stars #Astro #ECK #EasternOregon #Sirius