What do you do when the weather gets hot? Here, you go to the river and float, kayak, paddle board - anything to get relief from the heat. We are in a red flag warning for hot weather, thunderstorms, and fire danger. We've been lucky so far this year with cooler temperatures and more moisture, …
Day 175 – A Summer’s Day
Today I woke to pouring rain. But as is typical for this part of Oregon, it can be raining one minute and the sun will be shining the next. Today was no exception. By mid afternoon the sun was shining and the big, black storm clouds were receding into the distance. I went down to …
Day 172 – Why I love living in Bend, Oregon
One of the things that I love about living where I do, is the nature and wildlife living among us in the city. We are not a large city - population is about 85,000 - but we continuously have wild visitors right in the city. At our house, we have regular visits from deer, skunks, raccoon, …
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Day 169 – Benham Falls and the Big Eddy
We took a drive to a couple different places today to take some photos. Our first stop was at Benham Falls. There is a lot of water flowing at this time of year and the falls was running strong. It was hard to photograph because of the severe contrast in lighting. It was a very …
Day 135 – A Walk Around Bend
I haven't spent much time in downtown Bend recently so today I took a walk through town on my lunch hour. It's a really cool town and had a lot of interesting photo opportunities. I captured just a few in the short time I had to spend. It was very hot and very bright out …
