The last two days, we have gone to an area off of China Hat Road, just a short distance from Bend, to photograph the moon and the sunset. We were photographing at the base of a butte called Bessie Butte and yesterday noticed a sign for a trailhead to hike to the top of the …
Day 68 – Sunset on a “Moonscape”
In 2003, a forest fire located on China Hat Road, about 3.5 miles southeast of Bend, burned approximately 3800 acres of the Deschutes National Forest. The area had once been covered in lodgepole pine, but the fire changed all of that. The area is slowly reforesting, but burned out trees still cover the area. Tonight …
Day 60 – Winter/Spring
I went to another park on my lunch break today to look for some new subjects. It was a bitterly cold, windy day and I didn't want to have to spend too much time outdoors. There were a couple of cross-country skiers braving the cold and practicing in the park. In one sheltered area, there …
Day 59 – The Statue and the Teddy Bear
Today was another one of those days when I ran out of time and hadn't thought about a subject. So when I came home I tried to find something that I could get together quickly and attempt to shoot. I ended up with a statue of a Japanese woman and a teddy bear. It was …
Day 56 – Winter has arrived
I'm getting an early start on my blog today since it's Saturday. Winter has arrived!!! We have had a fairly snowless winter so far this year, but overnight last night it started snowing and I woke up to everything blanketed in white. We went from 60 degrees yesterday to 25 degrees today. Such is life …
Through My Lens 