As many of my blog followers know, I publish outdoors articles and photographs from time to time. It’s not my […]


As many of my blog followers know, I publish outdoors articles and photographs from time to time. It’s not my […]

The second weekend of the New Year I headed to the east side of the Columbia River Gorge to see […]

The penultimate day of 2012. And to my joy and amazement, it was all sunshine and blue skies. A great day […]

Elk are large animals with good-sized whitish rumps or “wapiti”, which is also the Indian name for elk. Clear-cuts and […]

Watching some commercials about the TV series Portlandia, I felt inspired to take some photos of Downtown Portland. I parked […]

Winter hiking in the Columbia River Gorge’s rain forest is reminiscent of a pretty woman without her makeup or dazzling […]
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On the last weekend of December, I drove to the east side of the Columbia River Gorge to the Rowena […]

I was thinking to myself – – – rain, rain, rain go away and come back another day. But, rain […]

A cold, rainy day in mid-December. Seemed like a good time to do the 4.2-mile loop hike in the Tualatin Hills […]