Thirsty? A fountain offers up a quenching gift. Portland, Oregon, February, 2007.

A rose that sits upon my kitchen table. Madras, Oregon; February, 2007.

Roll on Columbia. A tugboat pushes a couple of barges down the Columbia River which flows between Oregon and Washington states. If you click on the photo to get the fullsized version, you can just make out a series of wind generators on the hillside in the background. February, 2007.

There is a story in the Buddhist mythology in which Siddartha Gautama, before his enlightment, spent years with 5 asthetics. During a particularly vociferous rainstorm, the asthetic Siddartha was sitting in meditation, getting soaked when a giant cobra, sensing that this being would become a buddha, came up behind him, rose to it's full height, spread out it's magnificent hood and sheltered the future Buddha from the rain. I awoke this morning to a snow shower and went into my backyard for this photo. You can't really see it from this angle, but the small tree here is leaning over like that cobra to shield the Buddha from the elements. If you click on the pic to see the fullsized version, you can sort of see how the trunk of the tree is in the back part of the circle rather than the middle, while the Buddha statue is in the front part of the circle. This is my way of honoring that story within my contemplative area.

While going to the restroom at Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona, I ran across this wall of tiny windows.More lines, light, form and function. September, 2004.

An urban study in lines, textures, patterns, and perspective. One can get a better sense by clicking on the photo to see the full sized version. The closed in feel, almost claustrophobic, is an interesting contrast to yesterday's photo taken in the wide open spaces. Portland, Oregon, February, 2007.

An abandoned homestead in rural remote Sherman County, Oregon. February, 2007.

The morning after: I found this flower, limp and damp, on a bench at a bus stop in downtown Portland, Oregon, early one morning. February, 2007.

Sunrise hits the 3 Sisters in the Oregon Cascades. Taken from just outside of Madras, OR. January, 2007

Autumn comes to a creek in southern Oregon. Ashland, OR, October, 2006

I like the straight lines of the building and sidewalk, the curves of the lamp, the natural feel of the flowers, and then that totally wonky reflection in the window of a building a couple of blocks away. Portland, Oregon, February, 2007

A street corner in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, on a Friday night. I had this little 3-inch tripod that I used to sit the camera on the sidewalk for this one. February 9, 2007.

I wonder where this staircase leads to. I don't know but the tile on each step is quite colorful. Click on the photo for a better view. Tlaquepaque, an artist village in Arizona. September, 2004.

Another one from red rock country, Sedona, AZ. September, 2004.

This is a variation of another photo I posted a few years back. Walton Lake, Crook County, OR. July 2004

A cactus blooms in the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona. September, 2004.

This pic is actually 2 photos I stitched together (which you can see if you click on the photo for the full sized vbersion) of west Sedona, Arizona, looking northwest. This area, and those rock formations were in several western movies from the 30s and 40s. Spetember, 2004.

Looking down a hazelnut (filbert) orchard in Lane County, Oregon. October, 2004.