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Pics from the weekend

The brick arch of a doorway of a building on downtown Portland, with plaques for flood high water in 1894 and 1948. A giant plus Eevee, as high as the top flood plaque peeks around the corner from a shop further down tje street

A lightpole with stickers on it. The top reads "Nothing's wrong you're just weird." The second sticker is of Big Foot skateboarding. The third reads "You are magical use it for good." Tje fourth reads "Demand dignity"

Panko breaded chicken tender on a bed of cold noodles, with pickled ginger, seawees, a lemon wedge, and a ramen egg

September 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Jonathon E. Kraft Photography

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Portland Japanese Garden #PDX #portland #Portlandoregon #oregon #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #maple #japanesemaple #Fall #photo #photography #travel #travelphotography #leaves #Bluesky #asian #autumn #garden #leaf #PNW #moss #trees #rain #red

September 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Oregon Randy

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For #Stunday I'll drop this off from my very quick visit to #CraterLake National Park. I was in the area, so how could I not?
Compression will probably negate all the incredible detail I got out of this shot, which I need to print large format!
#PhotographersofBlueSky #Landscape #Scape #EastCoastKin

A Panorama of the incredible Crater Lake National Park, looking across the deep blue waters that fill the volcanic caldera, to the magical Wizard Island in the lake.
The foreground has large trees to the left and right. The sun is off and behind to the right, so the green trees on the left are in full sun, while the ones on the right are mostly in shade, with some green highlighted limbs. Below them is the lake surface, with it's incredibly deep blue waters. Some clouds are relflected in the water, which has subtle patterns of waves playing across the vast surface. Other areas of the lake surface show a less reflective surface due to steady streams of wind lightly disturbing the surface.
Wizard Island is about in the center of the image, with is rocky, forested flanks, and reddened top crater. From this vantage, the island's top is high enough to superimpose over the far distant greater caldera rim about 3.5 miles away (5.6km).
The tall crater rim and caldera cliffs drop dramatically down to the lake shore from center far left, to upper center far right. Some of the steep cliffs have trees hanging on in places, especially dense at the point to the far left. Further along the shore to the, near where the island almost touches the shore, there are small snow banks left over from Winter, this photo was taken in late August. High peaks in the caldera rim stand out above, the nearest is Hillman Peak at 8,151 feet (2,484m). From that peak the rim gently curves downward before rising to another prominence, and curving down once again. Above the final curve can be seen distant mountain peaks.
The sky above is a light blue with a few banks of puffy white clouds.

September 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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Cats of Yore

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TOP TEN CAT BREEDS
1. Super Bingus
2. Tender Loaf
3. Crime Bean
4. Le Squishe
5. Load-bearing Tater
6. Royal Softling
7. Electric Spiceweasel
8. Pantaloosian
9. Tammy
10. Dinky Porch Pebble

September 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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Chelton's Bird and Wildlife Photography

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An Anna's hummingbird looks up towards the sky as other hummingbirds threaten to defend the feeder

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
M, f/7.1, 1/1600, ISO 1600, 500mm
12/22/23

Northern Oregon Coast

#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography

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A tiny bird sits on a small branch and turns its head and beak up towards the sky. Its underside is covered in shiny, scaly looking feathers that, at the right angle, change from gray to green. Its entire front side of its head, including its throat, is covered in more scaly looking feathers that change from dark brown to extremely vibrant and neon pink at certain angles. Flashes of this neon pink show up on its neck, above its beak, and behind its eyes.

September 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM

boondockeorla.bsky.social

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Crying about it will make me feel better right?

A Bulova Accutron Chronograph 26B19 with a cracked crystal

September 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Chelton's Bird and Wildlife Photography

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Arguably another one of Oregon's most beautiful birds, the Lazuli bunting

📷 Canon 5D Mark III
Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
Canon EF 1.4x III
M, f/8, 1/400, ISO 500, 560mm
7/3/21
Northern California

#birds #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #buntingbird #buntings #lazulibunting

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Surrounded by dark green background and bright yellow-green leaves on the branch which it perches on, a beautiful bird appears centered in the photo, its left side facing the camera. Its head is a magnificent bright blue which fades to dark blue-gray and stripes of white on its wings. A hint of blue peeks through at the top of its tail feathers. Its breast shows a flash of orange which fades to white on its belly.

September 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Siobhan Thompson

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A movie about a boy getting magic powers because he’s the seventh son of a seventh son and that’s how he realizes he’s got siblings he doesn’t know about lol

August 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM

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Dr. Shannon Cofield 🪨🫆🌊

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🌊🧪On our Aleutians expedition, a 0300 onboard message got everyone out of their racks. We unintentionally mapped a MASSIVE landslide along a ridge line. Sent the initial data to USGS onshore SMEs- They were EXCITED.

So, we backtracked a few kms to collect a suite of data. Here’s the product: