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Maybe my favorite flower

That last line is the most galling part.

A painting showing three bears standing in a field of beargrass flowers. They are playing a guitar, a bass, and a banjo.

Attending the Sisters Folk Festival this weekend. Dennis McGregor has been painting a new poster for the festival each year for 20+ years. This older poster is all about beargrass music and beargrass flowers.
#art
#bluegrass
#musicfestival
#humor

Two brothers playing in the water on the edge of a lake as parents are sitting and watching from the shore. The mountains in the background still have patches of snow in mid September.

Summer

Who knew?

Your captions enhance the quality of your photos nicely.

That might turn up some interesting ones!

Mt. Hood, highest peak in Oregon, a volcanic cone nearly completely covered with snow in late May. Laurence Lake and green forested hills in the foreground.

Mt. Hood, May 26, 2024 while on a delightful spring wildflower walk with friends from nearby Parkdale.

Absolutely!

Absolutely!

Neil Young came to our neighborhood amphitheater this week. When his “Harvest Moon”came out many years ago I turned off the Christmas music turned on “Harvest Moon” and asked to have this dance as I gave dance lessons as a gift to us both. This week he sang to us directly as we danced in the aisle.

A few days ago I knew it was going to rain because the night light came on in the middle of the day.

We walk this river path almost every day.

Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.

RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are preparing to do exactly what many of us feared they would.

Next week, they are planning to present data that have been misused or manipulated to make it *appear* that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.

Why don’t people who live together have the same strains of microbes? Tami Lieberman (@contaminatedsci.bsky.social) and I put forward one underexplored reason in our new preprint:
Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes

Buildings perched high on cliff overlooking valley far below.

My wife hiking up steep narrow stairs squeezed between massive rocks towering above her.

Looking through a tunnel to see grounds and buildings perched against the vertical rocks.

Inside ornate cathedral full of tourists.

Side trip to Montserrat while visiting my niece in Barcelona in 2018.

My cat sitting on the window sill watching our garden full of red poppies.

Long gone but still a favorite photo of her.

Coming soon! It won’t be long! This is Clear Lake in the Central Oregon Cascade Mountains in 2022. Red and yellow Fall colors in the foreground with very aqua waters behind.

Coming soon! It won’t be long! This is Clear Lake in the Central Oregon Cascade Mountains in 2022.

Just documenting the color of the lake yesterday, 09/02/25.

Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park

Victoria, B. C.

Red and purple flowers with water fountain at Butchart Gardens in background.

Butchart Gardens, Vancouver Island. Recent trip.

This trip was all about untangling the puppet strings.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.