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Oregon Randy
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Part time Cryptid, Photographer of night skies, Landscapes, and deliciously living. 🤘🏳️‍🌈
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Grief is a funny shaped thing.
This is a stuffed toy my grandmother sewed for me when I was a child. My mother found it years later, and saw that it was torn in spots, then mended it and gave it to me again.
I recall the torn areas because I discovered the stuffing grandmother used was... 1/ 🧵
A plaid print, hand sewn child's toy. Mine. It is the character Eeyore the donkey from Winnie the Pooh. The plaid is a blue and orange bold bands, with dark stripes. The same color scheme is repeated on the facial features, with orange eyes and blue pupils, orange nostrils, and an orange mouth. It has long floppy ears, a scruffy blue mane, and a buttoned on tail with a blue tuft at the end. It sits on a green and white woven blanket, with another red and blue patterned blanket beside it. The background is white. The toy is facing left in profile. It was originally sewn by my grandmother, and mended by my mother.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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It's #WaterfallWednesday!
I almost forgot, but here's one from Eagle Creek in #Oregon one Spring day, when waterfalls are all over in the canyon! I'm not even sure this one is named!
#hiking #nature #Waterfall #Forest #ECK
A two tier waterfall drops from upper right, runs partly hidden diagonally for a short distance, then drops again at lower left. The cliff rocks it runs through are mostly hidden by green mosses, vegetarian and small conifer trees. The waterfall is not in direct light. A small tree's branches at far left is in full sun.
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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DMV
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Fresh pixels for #Stunday!
About 6 hours ago, we stopped at this vista of the #DeschutesRiver meeting the #ColumbiaRiver from the #Oregon side, with the massive mountains of Eastern #Washington rising high above the scene.
#Scape #LandscapePhotography #📷 #Nature #Hiking #ECK #Rivers #Mountains
A photo from a high vantage point overlooking the meeting of two great rivers. From lower far left a river makes a broad curve toward the right and then back to the left near the middle of the image, where it meets another river that flows from behind a large tan colored, steep bluff, then across the middle of the image off to the far left. Both banks of the curved river are lined with the tan terrain of late Fall season grasses, and closer to the water, dotted with trees. More trees are visible where the two rivers meet, along with multicolored train cars passing over a bridge at the mouth of the curved river. Mimicking the curve of the upward flowing river to it's left, is a dark line of a railroad grade. On the right side, there is a fainter trace of an old railbed turned into a recreational path. The flanks of the bluffs above on both sides of the river show creases where seasonal streams flow down. The bluff high to the right side of the curved river has horizontal rocky outcrops near it's top, and high tension power pylons sitting at it's very top. Across the horizontal river at the middle stands a tall mountainside in the distance, with a level shelf above the river nearer the mountain's base. Above that is a sinuous band of continuous white cloud horizontal across the entire image, hugging the mountain's middle. Above the cloud layer are the lofty, gently curved tops and ridges of the big mountain side. Most of the mountainsides and bluff are lacking trees, as is typical on the Eastern territories in Oregon and Washington, East of the Cascade Mountains. The sky above the far mountain is overcast, and fairly featureless. The colors overall are muted by the dimmer light getting through the heavy overcast sky, and the late Fall season. The rivers have a leaden blueish cast, as does the big far mountain. The nearer bluffs are largely muted golds, with hints of green.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I see the prompt for #Bright from #BlueSkyArtShow.
So going with this image from last Sunday's hike at the #Oregon Coast.
#HumansOfBlueSky #Cowboy #Beach #Hiking #📷 #ECK
A photo, over exposed to accent the subject. A man wearing a cowboy hat, and plaid shirt with the cuffs rolled up, jeans, and boots, walks down a wet sandy ocean beach. The ocean mist lends to the washed out appearance since it is over exposed. The damp sand gives a blurred reflection of the man walking down the beach. His head is turned to the right, toward the ocean. Vague details of trees in the background along the shore are faintly visible to the center left.
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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For today's #Scape I have a coastal view across tidal plains toward the cliffs of #CapeLookout on the #Oregon #coast.
In the foreground is a #GBH (Great Blue Heron) looking for snacks.
#LandscapePhotography #📷 #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow
#Hiking #Nature #Birds #ForestFriday
A photo of a coastal landscape with tidal flats in the foreground where a Great blue Heron looks for snacks. The heron is a tall bird, and is at the center bottom of the image, just at the edge of a small bank of mud flat where it meets the water. The bird is facing left mid stride. It's long body is leaning left on it's two long skinny legs. Atop it's long neck, are it's prominent white head with black accent from the back, and long pointed beak to the left. Several more strips of left to right mud flats and alternating waterways cross the lower half of the image, until reaching a grassy shore of dark to light tan colored grass, with a large clump of dense evergreen trees to the right. More grasses and trees alternate beyond for a bit before distant rocky cliffs rise abruptly in the far distance, topped by evergreen forest toward the top of the image, with a sliver of blue sky visible from center top to the left. The far cliffs and forest are part of Oregon's Cape Lookout, that juts out into the Pacific Ocean.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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It's another #WaterfallWednesday! This falls always captures everyone's attention that visits this canyon off the #ColumbiaGorge! Then they spot the big one at the end! 😆
With good light, sometimes rainbows play in this one!
#ECK #Oregon #Nature #Scape #hiking #cliff #forest #bluesky
A photo of a misty waterfall dropping from a cliff, bathed in morning sunlight. The cliff the waterfall drops from slopes from the upper right corner to the middle left, with tall conifer trees on top of it's ridge, and blue sky, with a few white clouds at the top edge of the image. The cliff drops down out of the sunshine, and is covered in moss, as are the boulders below it. The sunlight is coming from the far left off image, and low, so that the cliff face has many shaded areas on it's right sides.
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Late submission for the #Stunday prompt today. I was out chasing around the Oregon Coast today.
More on that later!
This massive cloud cap couldn't hide all of #MountShasta, but the upper elevations over 10,000 feet were shrouded.
#Mountain #snow #📷 #scape #MountainMonday #ECK #Nature #Clouds
A wide photo of a large shelf of cloud hiding a massive mountain, like a giant mushroom cap on it's top. Above is blue sky with very high thin clouds. Below the cap of cloud looks very turbulent and much less light, but dark streaks of rocky mountainside are seen radiating downslope, contrasting with white lanes of snow, also radiating downward. Below the bare snowy, and rocky slopes are vast tracks of dark forest, with snow peeking through the trees. The big cloud cap stretches all the way across the image. The mountain in hiding is Mount Shasta California, US. It's a large volcanic mountain that stands over 14,000 feet high.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Days like this in the #Fall in the #PNW are not common! And seeing The #ColumbiaRiver still enough to reflect the Fall colors is rarer still!
We *might* get another chance for these conditions this weekend! (11-8)
#📷 #scape #LandscapePhotography #ECK #FallColor #PDX #nature #forest #reflection #OR
A photo of a mountainside with trees turning Fall colors mixed with evergreen forest. The trees turning are mainly rusty orange in color. A blue sky with a few fluffy clouds is above the mountainside. The clouds are mainly to the left side. Below the mountain view is The Columbia River, which is remarkably calm, and reflects the entire scene above in it's water, with only a little ripple. This view across the river is of the Washington State side as seen for Oregon.
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This popped up in one of my streams today, and I had completely forgotten that it existed! I loved it's quirky vibe back then! (~93')
Purely kismet that my wallpaper happens to *be* Space! 😆 (Image my own)
I'll post a link in the comments...
#Music #90s
A screen grab of a song title, "The Female Of The Species", by a band called Space. It is playing on a device called 'Disassociating', and the background wallpaper on the phone is an image of space! It is a section of the Summer Milky Way, with loads of stars running from top left to bottom right.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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And to you as well!
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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So YOU did this!
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Waterfall vs. Fall!
This past Sunday was glorious in the Columbia River Gorge. Tons of people out soaking in the light & colors before the rain closed in again!
Great to see to good news this morning!
#WaterfallWednesday #FallColor #ColumbiaGorge #Oregon #Fall #🍁 #ECK #📷 #LandscapePhotography #scape
A photo of a tree with leaves in Fall season colors of gold and green taking up most of the image on the right half. There is gentle light highlighting some of the leaves. The left side of the image features a two tiered waterfall next to the tree and in the background. The upper tier drops down and disappears briefly before re-emerging with the lower tier which fans out slightly before dropping behind small shrubs. In front of the falls and shrubs is a dark wooden footbridge with a blurred figure on it from longer exposure. Below the bridge is a jumble of logs jammed in the creek. And below the small log jam, the creek runs free between large and small boulders covered in moss. Taking up much of the left side of the image next to the falls are tall conifer trees in dark green.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"What is my worth?! Or more crudely, How much is that doggy in the window?"
A #Corgi ponders an #existential idea, while waiting to see if snacks will be involved at some point.
#MonochromeMonday #📷 #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #dogs #waiting #reflection #PDX #StreetPhotography #snacks
A corgi breed dog sits in a plastic chair with metal legs in a doorway alcove. The dog is to the left of the image and is facing to the right, gazing into the door's large plate glass window. Reflected in the door glass is an image of the same dog seeming to look back at itself toward the left.
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Tonight's sunset from #WarRavagedPortland! 😆
Have a great evening folks, and keep your head up so you can see the truth. ✊🏻
A photo at sunset of brilliant colors on clouds that look like the colors of Fall leaves in pinks, bright oranges, and amber near where the sun went down. Some power poles and power lines cross the image from left to right in silhouette. A few houses and garages are visible either as silhouettes, or by the little light left. As well as a few trees further away. The background sky is a mild gradient of light blue at the horizon, to darker blue up high. Some of the clouds are shaded by the ones that are lit up, so they contrast in blue-grey. Most of the clouds trend as linear from upper right down to lower left, with scattering and complex breaking up of solid pattern.
November 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Also from the harbor near the bridge in Charleston!
Me high giving a "Charlie The Tuna" replica statue at the harbor bridge in Charleston, OR I'm wearing a red shirt and orange baseball cap, with a full white beard and salt and pepper mustache. I'm smiling while looking at the camera, and my body is facing slightly right. The tuna statue has a big white belly, and is facing the same direction I am, it has a big goofy grin in red with the mouth open to the sides and it's blue from the mouth up and down the back. It's wearing big black rim glasses and is looking down to the left. It has a small cap painted red high on it's head.
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Staying dry
Wildcat Creek Covered Bridge turned 100 this year!
#scape #bridge #coveredbridge #Oregon #roadtrip #Siuslaw #forest #river #PNW #rain #car
A photo of a red car with it's headlights on, sitting under the roof of a white painted, wooden covered bridge seen from the opening. The approach to the bridge is wooden plank and wet with rain, the headlights reflect off it. The approach has white painted wooden railing, three rails high. The inside of the bridge is dark, and unlit, with a designed breezeway opening near it's roofline that runs the entire length of the bridge. Behind the bridge is a green expanse of forest, that can be seen through the covered bridge on it's other side as well. Alongside the bridge is a river running into the distance on the left side, where hills topped more green forest, and clouds clinging to the hilltops. There are two signs on the bridge. One on the right upright says: "WEIGHT LIMITS" pictures of three different, and progressively larger truck silhouettes. Top to bottom, smallest to largest, there is text next to each, reading in descending order "10 TONS, 20 TONS, 30 TONS". A sign at the peak, facing out says: "WILD CAT BRIDGE, BUILT BY, LANE COUNTY 1925, A.C. STRIKER BRIDGE SUPT, 18-8W-16B - M22 - 39,4"
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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While out and about this #Halloween, remember to look up!
#Spooktober
A photo of a spooky skeletal creature in the dark near wooden rafters in a ceiling. It holds a scimitar in it's right hand, and it's body is draped in gauzy tattered cloth. It's mouth is open. Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Another #WaterfallWednesday, & another image from this small beautiful creek! #FallColor plays among the mossy creek steps. I love visiting here and seeing it change with the seasons.
#📷 #🍁 #Fall #moss #Forest #Nature #Hiking #EastCoastKin #scape #PNW
A photo of a small creek dropping through moss covered stone into a small pool. In front of it, the boughs of a vine maple glow in green and gold Fall colors, from upper right down to lower left.
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The Winter Milky Way was very apparent while I was at Arches a couple winters ago. And the zodiacal light! My first time seeing those!
The Winter Milky Way stretching from bottom left, to almost center top. A dense cloud of stars with dimmer bands of dust blocking some starlight. Either side of the Milky Way, there are still many stars of different brightnesses. Notably, near lower left is the brightest star in the whole sky, Sirius, the Dog Star. Above it, also on the right of the Milky Way is the constellation Orion, with it's familiar belt in it's middle, and some less familiar magenta areas only seen in longer exposures like this one. One of those magenta areas forms an arc on Orion's left side, and another above the constellation where the head would be. Both are dim areas of nebulosity, unlike the famous Orion Nebula in Orion's 'sword', which is visible in this image, though small in this large image. A somewhat rare phenomena called the "zodiacal light" appears in this night photo full of stars, and some silhouetted ground at bottom. The zodiacal light is sunlight dimly reflected back at us from dust in our inner solar system. It appears as a ghostly cone of light rising from the horizon. Here it is seen pointing upward, and tilted just left of center. At the point where it rises from the horizon, a bright point of light is the planet Venus. Higher up along the light cone is another bright point of light, which is the planet Jupiter. The come of light fades quickly closer to the top of the image, where there is a tight cluster of stars, which are The Pleiades. Many other stars dot the sky.
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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For those that choose to walk it, there's gold along the path!
#FallColor #EastCoastKin #📷 #🍁 #hiking #PNW #Forest #Nature
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Oh! It's #Stunday!
Here's one from last weekend's soggy stormy hike on the southern flanks of #MtStHelens.
I've been wanting to visit this small lake for a while now, and it was certainly wonderful #FallColor!
#lake #reflection #nature #hiking #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #WaterfallWednesday #📷 #🍁
A photo of a small lake in Fall, with a waterfall on it's right side, and a large patch of vine maples in bright oranges and reds, from center to left, contrasting with evergreens around them. And all reflected in the lake.
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A fun, busy shoot of #MountHood and the rising full #Moon from 2017! I picked this for #scape today. There were at least 100 people at this site just looking, or photographing this event. I found a spot to hang out on a cliff. 😆
#LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #📷 #nature #snow #mountain #glacier
A photo of Mount Hood with the last rays of sunset light striking the peak with a rosy glow, and the Full Moon rising just over it's right flank next to a rocky prominence. Contrasting white snow fields and glaciers, with dark rocky outcrops and ridges, cover the mountain. Below the mountain, the forested slopes are fading into darkness with deep blue colors, with closer mountains in the foreground in dark blue silhouette. The sky above is a gradient of lighter pale pink-red, to duskier red around the mountain. The features on the face of the full moon can be easily seen as it nearly touches the slope of the right side of the mountain.
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Some of the trees at work are going nuts! #Fall #FallColor #leaves #📷 #🍁 #nature #EastCoastKin #Oregon #PDX
A photo showing an array of colorful trees with their Fall Season leaves changing. Predominantly Rusty oranges, with accents of green on the inside leaves of the trees. A brilliant red small tree toward bottom right, and a dusky deeper red of a larger tree next to it on the far right. The sky is overcast with clouds and a hint of blue color.
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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A lovely little set of steps for this #WaterfallWednesday.
This small canyon is alive with tumbling water, and dense riparian growth.
#waterfall #hiking #moss #green #nature #EastCoastKin
A photo of a moss covered rocky ravine with small steps of waterfall dropping down from the top. Almost all the banks of this creek are covered with moss. The top of the image has some shrubs and a fallen logs. But the rest of it is just the creek in it's bed roughly centered, tumbling back and forth down to the bottom. The sides of the ravine are dark water worn crevices and pockets where the creek has eroded the rock for a very long time.
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM