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The Gay Spade
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Giddy Oregonian, vanarchist, writer, artist, bone collector, runner, gardener, currently digging my own grave, friend to all cats, chocolate and tea enthusiast, boat obsessed, they/them
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Did not get out of the house much on Turkey day but did go for a short walk on the creek to look for neat rocks as they are much easier to spot when the rocks are wet, & they were wet. Won't be running water in the creek for at least a month, so I couldn't wash these off that's why they're so gunky.
Picture of a white hand hold three rocks two of which are agates and the other is something else, a red rock banded with black in fine stripes. All three rocks are covered in course dark sand and algae. The creek bed can be seen in the back ground.
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I made sweet potato rolls for Thanksgiving instead of my usual fruit and saffron rolls. These were very good. Also made butter rolls, and those were very good also. Not every year is a double win on the rolls.
full filled frame of 11 orangey yellow rolls hinting at brown across their eggwashed tops, sprinkled with Swedish pearl sugar, baked close together so they are arranged in a honeycomb like fashion.
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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One of my favorite pictures of Howard because it shows how enormous he is, as I am the banana here, for scale, and it shows how close the two of us are; so often, if I lie down, it is only a matter or moments before he is there trying to find a spot on top of or beside me. #cats #TabbyCat
Picture of two legs extending from a tattooed midsection, clothes in a flax colored pair of sweater sweats, between which is a massive tabby cat, sleeping, but aware he is being photographed, one big paw extended up toward the camera almost reaching this person's gut
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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These two. Benny is a nice caretaker, part mum, part older brother, to Francis. If Benny is not available, he will accept a tabby substitute in the form of Howard. But really Benny is the best pillow. #cats #TabbyCat #TuxedoCat
An enormous tabby cat is a belly pillow to a tuxedo cat who has his little cat arm around the tabby's tum, his eyes closed, happy and peaceful for such a little shit. The tabby is poised to clean the other cat's head because it is apparently unacceptably filthy. Close up of a prone tuxedo cat waking a bit and stretching his neck up to give the gigantic tabby beside him a bit of a nuzzle. The tabby looks like he would rather be golfing.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Been wanting to paint for a while and not had time but sat on the floor the other night while Trick of Treat, a real goose of a movie, was on, and started working on this canvas I got at St. Vincent's. Cat have weird shoulders. #art #cats
Image of the spread legs of a person, seen from above, and between those legs is a large turquoise canvas with a cluttered and colorful collage type image screened on it surrounding a woman's face, but over the top of that the leg owner has begun painting a great big cat skull. Image of a foot and some toes seen from above, pointing to the first night's work painting a cat skull on a recycled canvas.
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Here I am at The Darkness show at Revolution Hall in Ptld. There were a lot of old people there and I now have to reckon with the truth I might also be old people. Great show though, charismatic opener, and The Darkness were fab.
Blurry picture, red of light, semi dark, of a music venue with a lower open floor full of standing people and a balcony with seated people. The standing people are all turned to the left with their fists up in what Justin of The Darkness called, happy to be here.
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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My Senator (Jeff Merkley) is pretty awesome. And I think he's a rarity in that. He is diligent and committed to representing the people of Oregon. But he also has tips on where to get in a good trail run. Get yourself a senator like that. (Or be that senator.)
Image of a large Oregon map book and a small central oregon coast tide table for 2025 on top of which is a piece of scrap paper with a drawing of a map for a trail run.
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Other things on my Lincoln City run. There are a lot of stairs to run up in Lincoln City. Oysters wear gloves and boots in Taft, but not pants. Shower nozzle in Nelscott reminded me of something. And the historical museum in Taft would be scary at night. #running #oregon #RobotPeen
A picture of a set of stairs on a hillside in Lincoln City. They are cement and have arches at the base and go up to a landing a third of the way up, and pass an abandoned scary house before exiting near a very mustard colored house. On the beach side are beach shrubs. Picture of the wall of a low building called Shuckers where oysters run around with their dark soul less eyes, and giant thighs, wearing no pants and plotting something I am sure. Translation, commercial art work cut outs of oysters with faces and arms and legs and gloves and boots but no pants. These three oysters adorn a building, and look to be walking, waving, and raising their arms in victory. Up close picture of an outdoor shower nozzle at the beach and it looks a bit like a dangus Museum display of devil items including a giant scary devil mask, and a devil costume on an uninterested dummy.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Beautiful highlights of my Lincoln City run. Was expecting rain, got sun toward the end, and had to fun in the surf to stay cool. Artsy sidewalk in Delake, tiny forest with path in Nelscott, Siletz Bay, and a rock on the beach at Taft.
This walk wraps around the cultural center or something like that in Delake in Lincoln City. It's right on the lake, and right next to the campground and right on 101. The picture is of a sidewalk and at the bottom are two feet in bright purple running shoes and the sidewalk has been embedded with a mosaic of what looks like broken safety glass which has the color of really pretty blue water, so the sidewalk looks like flowing water sort of. Foggy light sneaks in a young forest of beach evergreens that tower over a needled path surrounded by moss and ferns and undergrowth. It's bright and gloomy all at once, and very green. A stump sticks out of the shallow high tide at Siletz Bay, on which grow fostered new trees. The whole thing is reflected in the water and distorted by muted wave action. The sky and water are grey. Dark basalt stone weathered by the ocean and in the shape of a smooth heart nestled in the fine sand of Lincoln City, speckled by a fleck of sea foam.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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All the Halloween deco is down now, and Fall stuff is up instead, or getting up. I am late in doing something with these pics. I am often late. I am that person. Time is like a turtleneck, it's okay I guess, but feels constrictive. #Halloween #skulls #bones
bloody bandages bulging eye ball hanging skull, blurred background is the tree it hangs from, a ghost, and a tombstone. Large rendering rusted kettle with a glass top is covered in pumpkins, spiders, skulls and bones plus an old camp coffee pot. Behind it on this deck are more things in blacks and whites and oranges. The kettle glows purple from within. wide view of the deck and porch and all the Halloween decorations in purples and oranges and blacks. Lots of bones and skulls Large black pot filled with tall black gnarled sticks and bright orange leaves and orange lights sits at the base of steps leading up to a deck with more Halloween deco. A pumpkin sits on another step, a skull next to it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Fall pictures. I got home from a run and picked the last of the King apples for the last batch of applesauce. My life this past month has been making applesauce and raking pine needles. That's grand. And it's close to mid November and we still have a few lovely roses hanging on. #gardening #autumn
photo taken above looking down at an arm load of apples cradled in the hem of an orange sweatshirt. It's been raining, the sweatshirt is dappled with drops. The apples are yellows and reds and oranges. The green grass below is littered with yellow and orange leaves. A single tall rose stem with a fully blown dark pink rose shown from behind, lit on the face with morning sun. In the background of the picture is a crab apple tree loaded with tiny orange fruits, a maze of brown branches between them. I want to say that rose is Aloha.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This is Steve French and his brother Bubbles Purrmonster, and they don't really like each other. #cats #GreyBoys
Steve French, a good boy, a majestic mountain lion of a grey cat, sits in a dry creek bed, his back to us, but turning so we can see his deep yellow orange eyes. The creek bed is deep and has banked sides covered with autumnal golden grasses and the brown stems of shrubs bereft of leaves. In the distance the sun is making to set and the sky is going from pale blue to other colors. Bubble Purrmonster, a fluffy nutter of a grey country cat poses like a pouncing cat on a rock overlooking a dry creek bed. All around him are dry stalks of grass and the cloudy sky behind him looks as grey as himself and the rocks in front of him. Steve sits in the dry creekbed, his back to us, center right, as Bubbles, center left, cautiously approaches, one foot way extended toward Steve. You can tell by the look on Bubble's face that these two grey cats are not the best of friends. Dry grass, leafless trees, and blue sky are behind them.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Hard to chose just 4 pics for this, wish Bsky allowed for more. Ran to the river and back on a rainy day that turned sunny. Water's low enough I could access this bar and rockhound a little, but found nearly nothing but exceptional views. Jeez it was gorgeous #Rocks #Oregon #Running #JohnDayRiver
Up close photo of the top of a fender guard fence post showing the dessicated and preserved rings of the tree, green with lichen growth, and the number 06 burned into the crosscut. Looks like a weird green spider web, but it's wood. Picture of the John Day River from a large rocky bar that is most the year at least partially underwater. The bar is just river rocks, tons of river rocks, and takes up the whole lower half of this photo, the river crosses in the middle of the picture, wider to the left and narrowing as it flows to the right, and above that blue blue sky with lots of white clouds. To the right there are also golden hills. Neat rock held in my hand with the shallows of the river in the background. Rocks submerged are visible in the clear water. Across the creek running along the top of this photo is the opposite bank shaggy with golden grasses, topped by a golden hill, and then blue sky. The rock is about the size of a small pear, and mostly a creamy orange colored but with a darker grey inclusion. Another view this one upstream of the river from the rock bar. Rocks got form the bottom of the picture all the way across, angling to the left and ending in the middle of the frame where orange fall shrubbery appears hanging over the river. a little above center in this picture a horizontal band of distance brown hills goes across the photo, and then above that sunlit blue sky and white clouds. The river is just a sliver at the bottom right and then widens to take up most of the frame up to the middle of the photo. it reflects the sky and the distant hills.
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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3 out of 5 giant cats agree, my bed is pretty swell. #cats #TabbyCat #TuxedoCat
Landscape oriented picture of a bed taken at bed level, only a portion of the length of the bed is show, it is dressed in a muted brown small leopard print duvet with a plush pale turquoise blanket thrown across it, and on the blanket are two enormous tabby cats and one tuxedo cat of normal size. One tabby fills most of the left side of the frame, and he has a squanked look on his face, like he is not having it but also not having not having it. In the center and toward the back is the tuxedo cat, who is looking to the right at the other tabby, who is beside him and looking at him, right before he reached a paw out to bring the tuxedo closer so he can clean his face. The room behind them is painted turquoise with pale yellow accents and a large screen with skeletons painted on it hiding a drum set.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Bathroom at Dough Co. in Eugene, Oregon. Best place to eat in all Eugene, but also best place to pee maybe. Don't normally post pics of self anymore because the world is wicked, but I liked the cracked mirror image. #Oregon #CalzonesAndCookies #travel #graffiti
Picture of a light beige bathroom wall in close up to show some of the graffiti, center says in bold black capitals, STUPID SHOULD HURT! Black bathroom wall covered in graffiti, center bit says in white ink, I don't think ya'll will ever understand how much we appreciate you so if nobody's said it yet--THANK YOU, from--All of Downtown Eugene. This is obviously a message to Dough Co, because they are awesome, but it's maybe something you could stand to see too. Person in a horizontal striped green and grey tank dress stands in front of a mirror with a crack in it, taking a selfie in a bathroom whose walls are covered in graffiti. Body is mostly normal looking but face is sliced in half and sort of folded inward so the eyes are almost overlapping and the nose and mouth are halved if not disappeared more than that. Big phone in the foreground gives away age of this person. Old. BTW, RIP Karon
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Late season George Burns. Oft by this time the roses are done, everything is a frostbitten mess of brown green, but we are having a nice extended fall. With rain. It's quite lovely. #gardening #roses #oregon
photo up close of an open rose with greens filling the background, taken outside in nature, with rain drops sprinkled across the rose leaves. The rose is George Burns, and this one is predominantly the deep red, though in the picture it verges on darkest pink. It does have some splashes of the pale yellow , as well as some striping and some hand painting.
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Not a great video, but I couldn't get close without disturbing the birds in their birdsphere. Corvids are great alarm systems and pretty decent security guards. Came out this morning to feed the animals & the jays & magpies were in a great commotion in the front yard. I figured it was a coyote- 1/
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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May you be as happy as Howard on his favorite blanket. #caturday #Tabby #cat #BiscuitBoy
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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My kid and i carved pumpkins tonight. His was Halloween themed, and mine is the Peter Iredale before she became one with Clatsop Spit. I had to use comical (and comically hard to make) waves to maintain the space between the sails and the hull. Howard, the tabby, helped. #PeterIredale #Shipwreck
Large pumpkin carved with a four masted, steel hulled barque sitting all lit up on a deck with purple lights behind it and a bulging eyed skull beside it. Large pumpkin with a really bright light in it carved to look like the movie Halloween image. It sits on a deck made orange by this pumpkin glowing like it's irradiated. Picture of a very large tabby all spread out in his fat gloriousness on newpaper lining the floor. he sits next to a large stainless bowl with pumpkin guts in it, and beside that the hat of a pumpkin and a large pumpkin barely visible with a hand holding as it is carved out of picture.
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Ran the Columbia Gorge Trail. Usually it's busy, so I don't spend much time at the waterfalls, but this day I was nearly the only 1 there so I had myself a good time at Cabin Creek Falls, going up to the rock overhang that sneaks almost behind the falling water. That was neat #TrailRunning #oregon
Okay, I was talking about Cabin Creek Falls in the post but this is actually Hole in the Wall Falls, which i always enjoy getting in to in the summer on a hot run. Picture is of the bottom portion of the water fall, and the falls take up most of the top half of the photo, centered and surrounded by greenery and basalt, very lush, very wet from a recent rain. The water hits the small pool about mid photo, making a white mist, and then the shallow pool has that clear creek brown color before tumbling over large rocks. In the bottom half of the photo are these rocks, basalt, and slick as heck, also a large log traverses the from center left to the lower right corner, and is surrounded by leaves in all the fall colors, that have gathered in little pools, floating. The west side view of Cabin Creek Falls. Not a lot of water coming off this one, mostly mist and a thin sparse sheet at this level, seen from the side, floating over and running down the rock face of the hill wall. Moss and greenery surround it. The pool at the bottom half of this photo is filled with chunky blocks of basalt and fall leaves. This monolith sits at the bottom of Cabin Creek Falls, kind of blocking the falls from the highway path. It's a biggun, and this picture only captures a portion of it, moss and lichen covered, a lace of bright green leaves lit with sunlight float in the air in front of the big old rock Cabin Creek Falls from the rock over hang shelf that goes almost behind the falling water. In the top left of the photo is the ceiling of the rock over hang, and the left bottom is the dirt floor. The rest of the photo is the scrim of water droplets falling down, adn the greenery all around and beyond, the blue sky in the upper right.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Deschutes was pretty low, giving me an exceptional view of some of the river bed geology. 1st two pics are on the exposed bed and 3rd pic is of the rock wall on the east slope above this river bed formation. This is one of my favorite places in Oregon to look at weird rocks. #Oregon #Rocks
landscape view of the Deschutes River in fall when it's low. The bottom third of the picture is a rocky expanse of strangely jointed basalt in all kinds of weird formations suggesting some wild ass volcanic activity some millions of years ago. It's got some low dead grass on it, and is fringed with low trees at the water line. The water is a narrow swift and a bit turbulent gap and on the other side the canyon wall rises swiftly up. Close up of the first picture shows just how wacky this jointing is. These are small columns, really small, and they go every which way, like wonky teeth, and they sometimes swirl and circle around. Just amazing to look at and usually this is hidden by running water or shallow pools. Picture of a rock wall that the trail cuts through, just a little blue sky visible at the upper left. Like the other pictures, it shows the basalt jointed in swirls and columns and rosettes, like a work of art made of cooling rock. Just magnificent. I come by here often, and I always say, no more pictures, and i always stop for more pictures.
October 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Haven't run the Deschutes River trail since spring. Was saving it for a longer run, but wanted to see it in fall and the day was nearly without wind so I couldn't not give it a whirl. For most of this run it was just me and a whole lot of fishermen. One of my favorite trails. #TrailRunning
Shot from the east side trail on the slope of the canyon walls looking down onto the Deschutes. The slope begins mid picture on the left and goes sharply down to the river which appears dead center and runs blue, reflecting the sky to lower right center. On the other side of it the canyon walls rise up again all yellow with the autumnal grass. There is a line of red from some scrubby trees that start mid left and take the same steep angle of the slope and the river in this picture, ending bottom right. The top third of the picture is all blue sky and wispy clouds. Except for the Ochocos, there is no sky prettier than the one here on the Deschutes and I'd be boggled to tell you why I take this picture almost every time I go on this trail. Most of the rock features are on the east side of the east side trail, but this one, near the beginning of the trail lies between the trail and the river, and is a pipe of basalt with an arch beside it, and the arch makes a picture window that frames the river. It's big enough a few people could sit under it for a lunch or something. This picture shows the rock arch filling the picture starting lower left and curving its way to the lower right, with just a patch of bare ground in the lower center, and then the window under the arch showing the river and some of the far bank. A boat of fishermen speeds past caught right in the center of the window.
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Signs along the Deschutes River trail. I try to avoid hunting areas during hunting season, but you also just get used to running into men with long guns and chatting them up. #TrailRunning
Sign on a cross post reading: Welcome to Hunt Beyond this Point, Hunting Seasons and Area Regulations Apply, No Shooting Toward Developed Areas. This is surrounded by dead grass and beyond that the high buffed hills of the canyon near the mouth of the Deschutes. Sign on a post saying SLOW Slick Surface. It's near a gravel road where a spring runs across prit near all year, and behind it are the sides of the trail, brown with fall dead grass
October 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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This has been a shit year, but not for mums. The mums prevail. (For context, our falls don't usually favor mums so I don't usually see this sort of display from them.)
Deep purple red mums in a star form, very little center showing, green mum foliage background. Button mums in bright yellow all clustered together, very little greenery in the background for all the yellow. Mini daisy mums in a pale lavender pink color with yellow centers, up close with a bit of green foliage in the background. Peach colored daisy mums busy with native bees, pale dusty orange with yellow centers, a whole thick cluster of them as viewed by the side sort of.
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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I meant to get a pic of this mushroom when it was less melty, but I forgot. At first these guys have very tall narrow caps, like gnome hats, but with a rough brown texture like a dirty heel. Then one day they just melt into dark goo. These are big. #mushroom #fungi #SurpriseGoo
Long tall white slender mushroom leg grows emerges from rough gravel near a couple rocks, the cap is a button of light brown surrounded by a charcoal black melty blech goo. The base is surrounded by a thick lava like puddle of this same goo.
October 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM