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Cliff Crego
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🎶 Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble. On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 Composing off-grid the whole way. 🌕 #Sun2Sound WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🎵 TIMES TWELVE, #music & #poetry side by side “SUNSIGHT!” mp3 [53Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/times-tw...

(1) SUNSIGHT! for #BuckyFULLER
(2) LOVE SONG
(3) Unholy Land
(4) THE BELL
…(6) LOSS OF TRUTH w/ DESERTS / #VARESE
… (12) ORACLE “It took the whole world by surprise”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musicsky
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
#ClimateBREAKDOWN Reports, 500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt

mp3 [120Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/500x_alb...

Text pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-amp...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #climatesky #OREGON #ALPS #WALLOWAS #AI #gemini
September 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#trekking Krag Peak Basin 2400m Fall Equinox aspect #EagleCapWilderness

This #foto is a 6-day #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️
to #PORTLAND The totally bogus
projected #TRUMP reality will have
us believe #PDX is a war zone?
How does Gov. Tina KOTEK put up
w/ such mafia-style bullying?
In #OREGON we‘re better than that!
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#trekking Eagle Cap north face, from MIRROR LAKE at 2300m, #Whitebarkpine Country

Cache #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ at 1700m 2 Pan Trailhead
LOSTINE VALLEY. Spectacular run up
South to Eagle Cap 2900m. Snow
Sunday down to 2000m, but will
melt off once clear

#foto #bikepacking #backpacking 🌲
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#PoemsToLiveBy no. 3 #RILKE "TO MUSIC"
Recorded in the #EagleCapWilderness

The best love #poem to #music
I know… . . .

"Pure. Immense.
No longer habitable..."

mp3 bit.ly/2mZbc1h

🌕 #Sun2Sound🎵#Gedichten #Arspoetica #classicalmusic #philosophy #musicsky
September 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#phenology Flowering now at 1300m, Fall Fireweed / Autumn Willowherb (Epilobium brachycarpum) Geometry in 4’s; Member of the Evening Primrose family

Flourishing on hopelessly dry, compacted
HOT DROUGHT volcanic rocky soil…
How does it do it?

#nativeplants #wildflowers #OREGON #WALLOWAS
September 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#wilderness #trekking Ridgeline at 2600m the #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON #backpacking

Cold front swept thru last nite, w/
strong winds / fine dust getting into camera gear
MORNING: Brilliantly clear, OREGON Blues skies
as far as you can see… . . .

#climbing
September 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#NativePlants The miracle of leaf venation! #Patterns to study closely #Ribes (Currents) & #Hydrophyllum (Waterleaf)

If you #WALK 🥾 or #BIKE & avoid
using CARS, it becomes obvious that
the straight-line grid
of small town AMERICA is a thoroughly de-
humanized #DESIGN Follow #NATURE!

#biomimicry
September 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#nativeplants Bighead Clover (Trifolium macrcephalum), unique leaf geometry…

Imagine a new #botany & a new #music
that studies & teaches FORM as emerging
out of MOVEMENT, as the outward envelope
of the rhythmic pulse of life.

A natural for kids…

#wildflowers 🌿 #education #science #art
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#booksky HERE COMES THE SUN, by Bill McKibben (2025) audiobook www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5E...

A landmark work.Upbeat listening
for the IX.21.2025 great solar convergence
of Fall Equinox / New Moon /
Sun Day event!

“Sun, sun, sun, here it comes”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #solar #ClimateCrisis #Climatesky 🚴🏼‍♂️
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#trekking 2680m above the town of JOSEPH & Mt HOWARD chairlift, North #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: A #Whitebarkpine
time-lapse, one shot a decade.
We see trees marching up 10m a frame,
fleeing a HOTTER DRIER climate.
Just 200m till they hit
the ceiling 🌲

#backpacking
September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
THE SHEPHERD’S PURSE “Complaint” for on a #RILKE #poem

Perform poem in English & German;
then play straight through by heart 2x
Varying distance btwn #oboe & #soprano

Webscore is at www.cs-music.com/voice/compla...

Performance score pdf: www.cs-music.com/voice/pdfs/d...

#RiotAtTheRITE #Varėse
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#booksky #mountain #ecology ESSENTIAL READING: The classic "Alpine & Subalpine Vegetation of the #WALLOWAS ...," by late #ecologist, Charles JOHNSON

pdf [8Mb] bit.ly/2hduJ9Q

Always with me…
GREAT botanical line drawings /
TERRIBLE photos
NEEDS a new edition!

#WALLOWAS #OREGON #nativeplants
September 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
#trekking 💧 SLICK ROCK FALLS, easy hour’s hike from trailhead, #EagleCapWilderness Hurricane Valley, Northside of the #WALLOWAS

🚴🏼‍♂️ an uphill wonderful ride to trailhead
from the tourist town of Joseph, #OREGON
Coming into the pathless land of #wilderness

#backpacking #GoBIKES
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
#trekking 🌲 #Whitebarkpine Country & Eagle Cap, for me, the motionless center about which turns the great energy wheel of the WALLOWAS, a natural MANDALA

Great rivers—the Imnaha, Wallowa, Lostine, Minam—
radiate out in all four directions

RESOURCE PAGE at picture-poems.com/whitebarks

#OREGON
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#music #poetry #TalkingHandsTalkingFeet

This is our point of departure for the
vocal #YOGA called Talking Hands
I teach. For Children, it’s effortless.
The older we get, however, the thicker
that red line below becomes, esp.
in Classical Music.Talking Hands takes
down the wall.

#poesia #musica
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#trekking Slowly disintegrating Subalpine Fir (Abies lasciocarpa) TREE ISLAND 2250m, seen from the fused trunks of an ancient #Whitebarkpine

Whitebarks are pioneers, germinating
in bare mineral soil; they create the conditions
for these TREE ISLAND 🌲 communities to flourish

#backpacking 🌎 #OREGON
September 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🌲 Solo #Whitebarkpine at 2700m, #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

All the forested land in background
is TOO LOW for these remarkable
high-elevation 5-needle pines.
Think of that. That's #climate!

🥾 #trekking #backpacking #ClimateAction #climatesky
September 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#invasives Mala herba cito crescit / Bad weeds grow fast

#FOTO Jessica Stickseed (Hackelia
micrantha)…well yes,stuck to #VELCRO
the famous 1941 #Biomimicry innovation
by Swiss electrical engineer, George de Mestral.
He studied/imitated the similar 'hooks'
of wayside Burdock.

#designthinking #OR
September 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#Whitebarkpine 🌲 on solid Wallowa batholith granite 2500m #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

“Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.“
#MLK (1959)

The higher we go in Whitebark
Country, the deeper the resonance
of true words… . .

☮️
September 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
#Wildflowers 🌿 Mt Kittentails (Synthyris missourica), flowering just after snowmelt VI.27 at 2200m. NOTE the unique notched-rounded leaf & two protruding stamens

FORM emerges out of movement;
It’s the outward envelope of the
rhythmic pulse of life.

#nativeplants #WALLOWAS #OREGON
September 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#poem WOODEN FLUTES, a long-line sonnet

mp3 [5Mb] picture-poems.com/photoweek/wo...

Recording features the etherial sound of a solo
stream-side Varied Thrush; it sings
two tones at once in perfect mis-tuned
unison, and then listens in silence…
Utterly magical

#poesia #musica #OREGON
September 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#trekking 🥾HIDDEN LAKE 2200m East-facing glacier cirque, mid-July aspect #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON

#Photo looks down from POP CREEK
PASS 2400m w/ #Whitebarkpine regen
Down at lake, 🌲 Pine already
moved OUT & UP already 70 yrs ago,
reacting to HOTTER DRIER #climate

#bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ cache EAST EAGLE
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM