Cascade Ramblings

With the heat of summer, the Oregon Coast is always our default get-away.  On this trip we got in a lot of nice birding and spending time wi...

In this photo I've stopped my bike on the Historic Union Street Railroad Bridge over the Willamette River in Salem, which is now a ped...

On day three,  before leaving Boiler Bay State Wayside we got in a short, but obligatory, Buster/Bird Walk.  Preparations to leave caused Bu...

Hampton Park - Willamina Radio personality Paul Harvey famously prefaced his follow up remarks with, "And now for the rest of th...

This trip came about because: (1) We had a window of ten days open on our calendar. (2) It's a good time of year to travel over the Casc...

A week ago we met up with our friends Gary and Judy Dinsmore at the Keizer Elks where they had stopped on their way back to Oregon from the...

Red-winged Blackbird female Look closely at this photo of a female Red-winged Blackbird and you can see that she is gathering cattail...