Category: outdoors
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When we looked up on a morning walk at Mount Pisgah, we saw the sun making a fine spectacle of itself just before it cleared the fir trees. I’m no photographer; I just cart around an ordinary i-phone, but the grace of nature and technology gave me this picture. I am so grateful for grace,…
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This is such a sweet view of the southern Willamette Valley, and just a 20-minute drive and 10-minute walk to get there, there being a hiking trail that winds to the top of Mount Pisgah (actually more of a hill). Going to the top reveals the sweep of the Cascade Mountains, but I’m partial lately…
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The Heceta Head lighthouse is one of 11 on the Oregon coast. Most still functioning as navigation aids. Heceta has a Fresnel lens, an amazing bit of glass magic invented by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel and in use around the world since the 1820s, about 200 years ago. There’s no knowing how many lives his…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 