“Charlton Lake Morning”

mountains and trees reflected in a lake

Trump wants Gulf countries on the hook for Strait of Hormuz ‘protection’

Nice strait you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

Hummingbird visiting in my back yard today.

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“Grass Seeds”

close-up of wild grass seed heads

“Nobody Home”

empty snail shell on a bed of moss

“The Long Train”

time exposure of tanker cars at a railroad crossing

Another piece of my childhood vanishes. At least I can still make my own split pea soup, which I first ate there many decades ago.

California roadside icon Pea Soup Andersen’s, closed for years, to be demolished

I just barely managed to get a picture of this gray fox before he scooted into the woods. Glad I had a longer lens mounted already!

#dailyphoto #oregon #fox #cascades

“Today we saw Elk”

There’s an official elk-viewing station on Hwy 38. Today for the first time the elk were out when we went by. Alas, I didn’t have my long telephoto lens along, but this medium shot is cool enough to post.

herd of elk relaxing in the tall grass