I feel like it’s sorta cheating to use photos from Yellowstone. I mean, where’s the challenge? Those pesky birds and critters are just all over the place.
Osprey
Beaver Pond and Beaver Dam
Just to be clear, the dam below isn’t what made the pond above. I did see a beaver once in the pond, one day when I was there late in the evening. The dam below is across a ditch that was left from building the dike which kept out salt water from the fields used by a dairy farm. That was back in the olden days before the dikes were breached to provide salt marsh as habitat for salmon.
Downtown Wasco Oregon
Wasco is a small town in north central Oregon. It’s primarily a farming/cattle raising area. Like many rural towns it is struggling. Below is a boarded-up storefront window that I found interesting.
Favorite Campsite
I have been writing up my hiking memiors. Hours and hours and hours of working at the computer. Haven’t had much time for working on (new) photography or blogging. Lots of going through old photos that I took while out hiking.
This was one of my favorite destinations for a backpack (or just a dayhike, back when I could do a long hike in a day). Camp Pleasant probably burnt up in the North Fork Skokomish fire (AKA Bear Gulch). I will be interested to see, when they finally let folks into the area (probably a year or two). This is in the southeast corner of the Olympic National Park. Just over 6 miles in from the trailhead at Staircase Ranger Station.
Foxes
Speaking of going back and revisiting my trip to Yellowstone (May 2007) here are a couple of foxes we saw. They were a little bit shy, but not too much. It was fun seeing them … and they look like they have just been through a long winter, don’t they?
