Category: outdoors
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The day before the smoke from Eastern Oregon’s wildfires smudged the Eugene sky, I saw the moon in the morning, on the wane in its unglamerous phase between full and half, known as gibbous. That Latin word isn’t the one I’d have chosen. If I were the boss of English, it would be the belly…
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Nature took a while to render this sculpture. It’s a fine piece of work just off the Clear Lake Trail in the Willamette National Forest a few miles before Highway 126 and Highway 22 converge right before Santiam Junction. I don’t know why trees with the spiraling grain pattern catch my attention. Like a coiled…
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The McKenzie River in Oregon flows from snowmelt filtered through the unique volcanic aquifer of the Cascades into icy springs that feed Clear Lake. To walk the trail around that lake, to see clear water that flows out of the lake to become the river that provides Eugene with its drinking water, that’s an experience.…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 