A Gallery: Delights & Splendors of Cascadia

[cascadiabound]

http://www.marissacrowson.com/images/wendell_berry3_web.jpg​

 

[cascadiabound]

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Shore Acres State Park, Coos Bay OR

 

[Mrtenant]

http://www.marissacrowson.com/images/wendell_berry3_web.jpg​

I love that. Been awhile since I'vve seen it and never in a pic like that. Nice one cb.

 

[cascadiabound]

I love that. Been awhile since I've seen it and never in a pic like that. Nice one cb.

Thanks Mr T. I love it too. And it is purple.
It is a quote that always sends chills for me.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Glass Float Hunt Project, Manzanita, OR

 

[cascadiabound]

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Cascade Pass Trail, North Cascades National Park, WA

 

[cascadiabound]

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Bainbridge Island Ferry, WA

 

[Susurration]

Going back to the cherries, I'll have some please .

Thank you for taking the time to put back the pictures. It must have taken you a lot of work.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Mountain Lake Sunrise paddle

 

[cascadiabound]

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Chitwood Covered Bridge, OR

 

[cascadiabound]

2010 Janet Barkhouse


Coyote

Stalking mushrooms is a quiet business. They
hunker down, I swear, if they hear you coming,
behind mossy rocks, beneath bracken
and fern, so I am silent
except for mosquito whine and deerfly buzz haloing
my sweaty head. Even squirrels
and jays have succumbed
to peace.

Surely I shadow my ancestors who must have done
just this, meandered
beside brown water that trickled, gleamed
through a hundred greens, minds relieved
of less happy chores, eyes casting
for gorgeous food: golden wrinkled Chanterelles,
black Horn of Plenty, Tamarack Jacks
shiny as chestnuts just peeled
from their husks.

I sever each from its base,
favourite curved paring knife
close to the earth. My fingers
plop each in the basket
lined with yesterday's news: Seven More Dead
in Afghanistan; Nationwide Hunt for Father
of Murdered Three. A Delicious Lactarius, candy-orange pink
with aqua freckles, betrays a whole camp of Red-Cracked Boletes.
I am wielding my tiny scimitar left and right
when I hear an alien cry—a whinny,
a belling—of terror. I freeze,
disoriented: a scrabbling, a crashing,
and again a sickening cry. Look!

A fawn is running, plunging, gangly legs
flying, soft coat dappled as the wood
it lunges through. Dark shadow follows
as shadows must.

The shadow rebels, leaps
on the fawn, who struggles, sobs, falls. No!
I spring forward, clap my hands. No!
My mushrooms swirl over the scurf of forest floor,
blue jays shriek, squirrels clatter. The coyote whirls,
nails me with its empty eyes, speeds
back up its trail. The fawn, caught
between horrors, scrambles hard after.

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[Shankara20]

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North Fork Yachts Covered Bridge. Lane County, OR.

 

[cascadiabound]

^^^ that's gorgeous Shank. Thanks for posting.
I feel a tour of Oregon's covered bridges coming on.

 

[Shankara20]

^^^ that's gorgeous Shank. Thanks for posting.
I feel a tour of Oregon's covered bridges coming on.

So far, that is the only one i have visited. Twice. (Has nothing to do with the lady rumored to garden naked across the bridge. )

 

[cascadiabound]

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Docktown Historical Trail and Vashon Island, WA

 

[cascadiabound]

So far, that is the only one i have visited. Twice. (Has nothing to do with the lady rumored to garden naked across the bridge. )

uh huh. right.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Cedar Creek Grist Mill, WA

 

[cascadiabound]

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John Day Fossil Beds Total Eclipse of the Sun 2017 Poster - Aug 21


Love this great poster design. Everyone ready for the Total Eclipse?
Know where you gonna be so you can see it?
John Day Fossil Beds are going to be one of the most spectacular places in the country to see it.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Rialto Beach

 

[yukonnights]

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John Day Fossil Beds Total Eclipse of the Sun 2017 Poster - Aug 21


Love this great poster design. Everyone ready for the Total Eclipse?
Know where you gonna be so you can see it?
John Day Fossil Beds are going to be one of the most spectacular places in the country to see it.

Yes, no doubt that eastern Oregon is going to be one of the most likely to have clear weather and great views....But, please do your research before going into the area! The rural areas in the path of the eclipse are not equipped for the expected crowds and there is concern that the number of people will overwhelm local infrastructure and support, etc. This is hot dry country with minimal stores, motels, gas stations etc. If the numbers expected actually do turn out to be true, there could be a lot of safety problems. Bring water,food and plenty of gasoline. Be safe...and please don't leave trash and used toilet paper in this pristine place....

PS: Don't forget your solar viewing glasses!

PPS: I was recently out to the John Day Fossil Beds... it is an amazing place...check it out if you can! It is actually a world class paleontology research center...about 44 million years of earth history in neat layers of ancient volcanic sediment

PPPS: Hi Cas

 

[cascadiabound]

Yes, no doubt that eastern Oregon is going to be one of the most likely to have clear weather and great views....But, please do your research before going into the area! The rural areas in the path of the eclipse are not equipped for the expected crowds and there is concern that the number of people will overwhelm local infrastructure and support, etc. This is hot dry country with minimal stores, motels, gas stations etc. If the numbers expected actually do turn out to be true, there could be a lot of safety problems. Bring water,food and plenty of gasoline. Be safe...and please don't leave trash and used toilet paper in this pristine place....

PS: Don't forget your solar viewing glasses!

PPS: I was recently out to the John Day Fossil Beds... it is an amazing place...check it out if you can! It is actually a world class paleontology research center...about 44 million years of earth history in neat layers of ancient volcanic sediment

PPPS: Hi Cas

OMG! Yukon sighting!!!!! Hi honey!
And yes to all the advice he gives. All that is right on the money.
Water. Gas. Special glasses. Pack it in, pack it out. Leave your pup at home.
It's gonna be HOT. Plan to be self sufficient, even if they tell you they will have stuff.
Madras...town of 6000 is expecting 100,000 visitors for the eclipse.
It's gonna be nuts.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Mt Shuksan WA

 

[cascadiabound]

Turning Small

She keeps eating tender roses,
euros in her pocket,
of various sizes.
They don't help.
They don't rub off.

Gotten her self​

in deeper before.
She can have it,

take her pick.​

Grace Slick says the 60s
were the perfect time
for a person like her
as if . . .

it was eros


anima

tasting the ashes,​

cool ambers in her hand,
small fractions of a woman.
They don't help.
They don't rub off.
Turn her into a diamond.
Pick her a ruby. Call her Lucy,

letter over to the other​

side, hazy purple,
sky-writing
as if . . .

surely

it was yesterday,
tender blooming,
star rubbing,
turning small.

by Kim Clark, Vancouver Island BC poet and author​

 

[cascadiabound]

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Paddling Quadra Island, BC

 

[Mister_Song]

Paddling Quadra Island, BC

I really like the perspective of this one, right down on the water.