Another day at the park
and, amazing things to see … dancing pigeons, reflected mill race grasses, oil paint trees and a solitary still blooming flower … clicking on a photo opens a better resolution view
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Kirby’s VERY favorite photos from 2025
My kestrel persona, Kirby from Cascade Raptor Center, selects her favorite pictures from the blog over the last year. This set of photos are her ‘VERY favorite’ … these she found to be the very best and wants to keep looking at them. Full resolution photos are posted at Adobe – the ‘VERY BEST‘ gallery….
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Kirby’s almost favorite photos from 2025
My kestrel persona, Kirby from Cascade Raptor Center, selects her favorite pictures from the blog over the last year. This set of photos are her ‘almost favorites’ … they were good, but not quite good enough. Often, the subject or content was really good, but the photo quality stretched. Full resolution photos are posted at…
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Mid morning mist
The camera can say it better – all taken Mon, 11-17
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Cold mornings around the lakes
All week, the mornings were cold less than 40 with wind that made it feel much, much colder. Every morning with headlamp on, deer went back and forth from fields to woods; cars zoomed like idiots. One just barely missed a deer, one car hit another, but the deer survived and ran off. Reminder: Clicking…
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Around the lakes after T-Storms
T-storms rolled in on Sunday, and then Monday and Tuesday morning, the sunrise was perfectly clear under a new moon. Monday, on the south side of one lake are two farms situated on a knoll looking east … that tree I’ve photographed more than any other tree – it just catches the sun as it…
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Lakeside sunrise before T-storms
Nothing like midwest thunderstorms to bring weirdly unstable air, clouds and wonderful sunrises. Before the sunrise, a few clouds, and a sliver of a moon … As the sun rose, different clouds rolled in and the sun went back and forth behind them. As it came above the treetops, the redness followed And then, …….
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Spencer’s first fall foggy fingers
When you wake up in the morning just unwilling to drive a long distance, Spencer Butte is just so close … especially worth considering after recent rains softened up that hard gravel path. Alpine Trail and Hardesty Mt were discarded as too far to drive … I crossed the Mt Baldy meadows without a headlamp…
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Kirby’s Crater Lake photos
Oddly, as photos were reviewed for the better ones, several scenes reappeared from last time – Wizard Island and specific trees are photo magnets. If you were looking for hiking trip review – go here. Not surprisingly, Wizard Island is in several photos. Remember to open each photo in 90% resolution
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A mighty kestrel’s lunch
While out riding along the Mckenzie River today, with the flowers blooming, the sun shining, and the wind blowing, a diving small raptor caught my attention. – truly out of side of eye as I was coasting down a hill. I wasn’t sure what it was at first – it dove, and then waveringly flew…
