“Cafeteria”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 25mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 1600. A spot on the French Pete trail where a squirrel spent time gathering pine nuts.

#mbjune Day 20: gather 📷

Litter of pine cone bits on a fallen tree

“Pom-Pom”

Olympus TG6 @ 18mm, f/6.3, 1/125s, ISO 800. Bluehead Gilia on Lowder Mountain.

Bluehead Gilia flower

“The Missing Dwarf”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 22mm, f/5.6, 1/60s, ISO 500. Along the Quaking Aspen Trail.

Large fungus on a tree stump

ACIP draft agenda revives anti-vaccine boilerplate topics

RFK Jr. and his band of nutbar enablers are going to set the health of American children back at least a century. The amount of blood on this man’s hands will be phenomenal. Maybe that’s why Trump is looking to bomb Iran, so he can keep up in the body count.

“Twinsies”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/8, 1/320, ISO 640. Twinflower along Elk Creek Trail.

#mbjune Day 19: equal 📷

Two equal flowers

“Yellow”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5, 1/320s, ISO 160. Glacier Lily in a meadow near the top of Lowder Mountain.

Bright yellow flower

DHS places new limits on lawmakers visiting ICE facilities

Ya know, if you don’t want people to keep calling you secret police or Gestapo, maybe stop acting like you are?

“Split View”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 35mm, f/6.3, 1/100s, ISO 500. Sign at the intersection with Lowder Mountain trail.

Trail intersection signs

“Delicate”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/50s, ISO 1600. One of the many flower spikes of Coralroot Orchid along the Lowder Mountain Trail.

Coralroot orchid flowers

Cannabis use linked to a doubled risk of heart disease death, new study finds

I’m a firm believer in your right to use whatever intoxicant you like, as long as it doesn’t harm others. But I’m also utterly unsurprised that filling your lungs with smoke for years is bad for your health.

“Gnarled”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 30mm, f/5, 1/1000s, ISO 250. Shot at the shore of Waldo Lake.

#mbjune Day 18: texture 📷

Close up of old stump

Seen around town today:

Elon: Privatize your penis and leave my social security alone.

I do enjoy living in Eugene.

“Antics”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5.6, 1/500, ISO 500. At Salt Creek Falls.

Close-up of an ant

“Not a Pine Cone”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.3, 1/800s, ISO 6400. This is actually a clump of mushroom caps along the Elk Creek Trail.

Clump of mushrooms on a log

“Life is a Struggle”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/2.8, 1/3200s, ISO 320. Along the Elk Creek Trail.

Tiny pine tree next to a rock

“You Can’t See Me”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/7.1, 1/160s, ISO 2000. Tiny spider photobombs my picture of a bear grass bud along the Elk Creek Trail.

Spider on bear grass

Trump leaves G7 summit early due to Middle East situation

I’m annoyed that the media is taking Trump’s “I have busy important things to do” statements at face value. It seems to me much more likely that he left early because he has the attention span of a gnat and was petulant that they didn’t join him in fawning over his buddy Putin.

Looks like there’s still a tiny pocket of resistance at the National Weather Service.

Weather forecast including "Juneteenth"

“Mink Lake”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/125s, ISO 200. About 8 miles back in the Three Sisters Wilderness.