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Oregon Randy
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Part time Cryptid, Photographer of night skies, Landscapes, and deliciously living. 🤘🏳️‍🌈
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Just a spot of late Fall color along The #Deschutes river where it meets the #ColumbiaRiver in #Oregon.
I thought these might be fitting due to the pervasive grey conditions here lately. No idea what they are, but they are #flowers! Splashes of color in a drab #scape.
#📸 #hiking #ECK #Fall #small
A photo of a cluster of small pale pink and red flowers. The flowers are mainly from bottom center, up through the middle of the image, and spread out sparsely across the top. The flowers are a rough bell shape, with very pale pink petals, and small red stripes down the petals. The colors reminded me a bit of a candy cane. The remainder of the scene is a tangle of green background grasses, and dried tan stems of other taller grasses sparsely criss crossing the image.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
(They'll do it, but it'll take 3 seasons)
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Late #Stunday post!
For some reason I was thinking back to the #landscape of the #Moab area.
Here's a well known area looking toward the #LaSalMountains.
I was on my way to Dead Horse and #Canyonlands that day, and stopped here to soak it up.
#EKC #Mountains #Snow #MountainMonday #📷 #pano #Scape
A panorama photo of distant snowy mountains under a blue sky with hazy thin clouds. Below the mountains are some complex landscapes near the Moab Utah area, showing jutting fins of red sandstone, and a variety of other sandstone landforms, as well as some mesas and snow free stepped landscape under the mountains. Further down toward the foreground are more tan and light orange stone exposures dotted with sage and juniper forest. The foreground is dominated by evergreen brush and leafless trees, and grey dormant grasses. In the low foreground is bare tan and grey stone, with patches of snow visible in spots on the far right and the left under a bare tree.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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#BluskyArtShow #Little #ChildOfTheEarth #JerusalemCricket
#Ammopelmatus #Insects #Oregon #nature
This little one, along with all the other insects we saw that day #hiking, were all moving slowly due to the chilly temperatures. Hopefully it dug itself a little den in the dirt.
A photo of a "Jerusalem cricket". These are not crickets, but that is one of their common names. The photo shows a small area of grass and small green plants on stall brown soil, sparsely criss crossed by light tan bits of longer grasses. In the center of the image is the insect, facing toward the top of the image. It has six chubby, segmented legs of an orange color. Three on each side of the body. It's abdomen is as long as it's back legs, looks a bit rotund, and has dark segmented rings around it's length, that are shiny. It's central body, or thorax, is where it's legs all attach, and is a dark orange color. It's head is the same dark orange color as the thorax, with one of it's small black eyes visible on the right side of the head. Just above it's right eye, one of it's two antennas begins. Both antennas are visible, and are a light tan color, and are long and delicate looking. It's colors make it contrast strongly against the green of the small plants it is laying across.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
( #Ministry )
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Fall can really be a season of confusion at times.
This single bright flower was the only one of it's kind I saw.
Everything else, except the tough low grasses, was well on it's way to being dormant, or dead for the rest of the year.
#Fall #Flowers #Nature #Hiking #Oregon #ECK
A close photo of a single bright flower in the lower left, with nine yellow petals, each having a three pointed end, and it's center with a red circle around small golden round bits. To it's your right is a bunch of dried old flowers in a bunch, with petals having a rusty color to their ends, and white toward the center. Their centers look a bit fuzzy, and are a dull tan color. Below all the flowers, in the background, are green leaves of short grasses, and longer curled and dried shoots of dead grass.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Power ⚡
Today's prompt is #Scape.
This view was pointed out to me on last weekend's hike, and I loved it because the wind turbines looked much more massive than the pylons by a bit of forced perspective. And they are huge!
#LandscapePhotography #ECK #📷 #hiking
A landscape photo of alternating layers of ridges, and cloud banks. The nearest ridge is covered in tan colored late Fall season grasses, and a few outcrops of exposed rock horizontally near the lower part of the image. Just over the top edge of the near ridge are four tall power pylons carrying power lines that run across the center of the image. They are contrasted by a low bank of white cloud behind them, that also runs across the center of the image. Beyond and above the near ridge and the low cloud banks is a further, taller ridge of distant mountainside that is darker, but also appears to be covered in low grasses and some rock outcrops that are darker still. Similarly, this distant mountainside also has six giant three bladed, white wind turbines just over it's crest. They appear to be facing right. Beyond them, the sky at the top of the image is clouded by darker mottled clouds.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Grief is a funny shaped thing.
This is a stuffed toy my grandmother sewed for me when I was a child. My mother found it years later, and saw that it was torn in spots, then mended it and gave it to me again.
I recall the torn areas because I discovered the stuffing grandmother used was... 1/ 🧵
A plaid print, hand sewn child's toy. Mine. It is the character Eeyore the donkey from Winnie the Pooh. The plaid is a blue and orange bold bands, with dark stripes. The same color scheme is repeated on the facial features, with orange eyes and blue pupils, orange nostrils, and an orange mouth. It has long floppy ears, a scruffy blue mane, and a buttoned on tail with a blue tuft at the end. It sits on a green and white woven blanket, with another red and blue patterned blanket beside it. The background is white. The toy is facing left in profile. It was originally sewn by my grandmother, and mended by my mother.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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It's #WaterfallWednesday!
I almost forgot, but here's one from Eagle Creek in #Oregon one Spring day, when waterfalls are all over in the canyon! I'm not even sure this one is named!
#hiking #nature #Waterfall #Forest #ECK
A two tier waterfall drops from upper right, runs partly hidden diagonally for a short distance, then drops again at lower left. The cliff rocks it runs through are mostly hidden by green mosses, vegetarian and small conifer trees. The waterfall is not in direct light. A small tree's branches at far left is in full sun.
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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DMV
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Fresh pixels for #Stunday!
About 6 hours ago, we stopped at this vista of the #DeschutesRiver meeting the #ColumbiaRiver from the #Oregon side, with the massive mountains of Eastern #Washington rising high above the scene.
#Scape #LandscapePhotography #📷 #Nature #Hiking #ECK #Rivers #Mountains
A photo from a high vantage point overlooking the meeting of two great rivers. From lower far left a river makes a broad curve toward the right and then back to the left near the middle of the image, where it meets another river that flows from behind a large tan colored, steep bluff, then across the middle of the image off to the far left. Both banks of the curved river are lined with the tan terrain of late Fall season grasses, and closer to the water, dotted with trees. More trees are visible where the two rivers meet, along with multicolored train cars passing over a bridge at the mouth of the curved river. Mimicking the curve of the upward flowing river to it's left, is a dark line of a railroad grade. On the right side, there is a fainter trace of an old railbed turned into a recreational path. The flanks of the bluffs above on both sides of the river show creases where seasonal streams flow down. The bluff high to the right side of the curved river has horizontal rocky outcrops near it's top, and high tension power pylons sitting at it's very top. Across the horizontal river at the middle stands a tall mountainside in the distance, with a level shelf above the river nearer the mountain's base. Above that is a sinuous band of continuous white cloud horizontal across the entire image, hugging the mountain's middle. Above the cloud layer are the lofty, gently curved tops and ridges of the big mountain side. Most of the mountainsides and bluff are lacking trees, as is typical on the Eastern territories in Oregon and Washington, East of the Cascade Mountains. The sky above the far mountain is overcast, and fairly featureless. The colors overall are muted by the dimmer light getting through the heavy overcast sky, and the late Fall season. The rivers have a leaden blueish cast, as does the big far mountain. The nearer bluffs are largely muted golds, with hints of green.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I see the prompt for #Bright from #BlueSkyArtShow.
So going with this image from last Sunday's hike at the #Oregon Coast.
#HumansOfBlueSky #Cowboy #Beach #Hiking #📷 #ECK
A photo, over exposed to accent the subject. A man wearing a cowboy hat, and plaid shirt with the cuffs rolled up, jeans, and boots, walks down a wet sandy ocean beach. The ocean mist lends to the washed out appearance since it is over exposed. The damp sand gives a blurred reflection of the man walking down the beach. His head is turned to the right, toward the ocean. Vague details of trees in the background along the shore are faintly visible to the center left.
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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For today's #Scape I have a coastal view across tidal plains toward the cliffs of #CapeLookout on the #Oregon #coast.
In the foreground is a #GBH (Great Blue Heron) looking for snacks.
#LandscapePhotography #📷 #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow
#Hiking #Nature #Birds #ForestFriday
A photo of a coastal landscape with tidal flats in the foreground where a Great blue Heron looks for snacks. The heron is a tall bird, and is at the center bottom of the image, just at the edge of a small bank of mud flat where it meets the water. The bird is facing left mid stride. It's long body is leaning left on it's two long skinny legs. Atop it's long neck, are it's prominent white head with black accent from the back, and long pointed beak to the left. Several more strips of left to right mud flats and alternating waterways cross the lower half of the image, until reaching a grassy shore of dark to light tan colored grass, with a large clump of dense evergreen trees to the right. More grasses and trees alternate beyond for a bit before distant rocky cliffs rise abruptly in the far distance, topped by evergreen forest toward the top of the image, with a sliver of blue sky visible from center top to the left. The far cliffs and forest are part of Oregon's Cape Lookout, that juts out into the Pacific Ocean.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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It's another #WaterfallWednesday! This falls always captures everyone's attention that visits this canyon off the #ColumbiaGorge! Then they spot the big one at the end! 😆
With good light, sometimes rainbows play in this one!
#ECK #Oregon #Nature #Scape #hiking #cliff #forest #bluesky
A photo of a misty waterfall dropping from a cliff, bathed in morning sunlight. The cliff the waterfall drops from slopes from the upper right corner to the middle left, with tall conifer trees on top of it's ridge, and blue sky, with a few white clouds at the top edge of the image. The cliff drops down out of the sunshine, and is covered in moss, as are the boulders below it. The sunlight is coming from the far left off image, and low, so that the cliff face has many shaded areas on it's right sides.
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Late submission for the #Stunday prompt today. I was out chasing around the Oregon Coast today.
More on that later!
This massive cloud cap couldn't hide all of #MountShasta, but the upper elevations over 10,000 feet were shrouded.
#Mountain #snow #📷 #scape #MountainMonday #ECK #Nature #Clouds
A wide photo of a large shelf of cloud hiding a massive mountain, like a giant mushroom cap on it's top. Above is blue sky with very high thin clouds. Below the cap of cloud looks very turbulent and much less light, but dark streaks of rocky mountainside are seen radiating downslope, contrasting with white lanes of snow, also radiating downward. Below the bare snowy, and rocky slopes are vast tracks of dark forest, with snow peeking through the trees. The big cloud cap stretches all the way across the image. The mountain in hiding is Mount Shasta California, US. It's a large volcanic mountain that stands over 14,000 feet high.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Days like this in the #Fall in the #PNW are not common! And seeing The #ColumbiaRiver still enough to reflect the Fall colors is rarer still!
We *might* get another chance for these conditions this weekend! (11-8)
#📷 #scape #LandscapePhotography #ECK #FallColor #PDX #nature #forest #reflection #OR
A photo of a mountainside with trees turning Fall colors mixed with evergreen forest. The trees turning are mainly rusty orange in color. A blue sky with a few fluffy clouds is above the mountainside. The clouds are mainly to the left side. Below the mountain view is The Columbia River, which is remarkably calm, and reflects the entire scene above in it's water, with only a little ripple. This view across the river is of the Washington State side as seen for Oregon.
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This popped up in one of my streams today, and I had completely forgotten that it existed! I loved it's quirky vibe back then! (~93')
Purely kismet that my wallpaper happens to *be* Space! 😆 (Image my own)
I'll post a link in the comments...
#Music #90s
A screen grab of a song title, "The Female Of The Species", by a band called Space. It is playing on a device called 'Disassociating', and the background wallpaper on the phone is an image of space! It is a section of the Summer Milky Way, with loads of stars running from top left to bottom right.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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And to you as well!
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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So YOU did this!
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Waterfall vs. Fall!
This past Sunday was glorious in the Columbia River Gorge. Tons of people out soaking in the light & colors before the rain closed in again!
Great to see to good news this morning!
#WaterfallWednesday #FallColor #ColumbiaGorge #Oregon #Fall #🍁 #ECK #📷 #LandscapePhotography #scape
A photo of a tree with leaves in Fall season colors of gold and green taking up most of the image on the right half. There is gentle light highlighting some of the leaves. The left side of the image features a two tiered waterfall next to the tree and in the background. The upper tier drops down and disappears briefly before re-emerging with the lower tier which fans out slightly before dropping behind small shrubs. In front of the falls and shrubs is a dark wooden footbridge with a blurred figure on it from longer exposure. Below the bridge is a jumble of logs jammed in the creek. And below the small log jam, the creek runs free between large and small boulders covered in moss. Taking up much of the left side of the image next to the falls are tall conifer trees in dark green.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"What is my worth?! Or more crudely, How much is that doggy in the window?"
A #Corgi ponders an #existential idea, while waiting to see if snacks will be involved at some point.
#MonochromeMonday #📷 #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #dogs #waiting #reflection #PDX #StreetPhotography #snacks
A corgi breed dog sits in a plastic chair with metal legs in a doorway alcove. The dog is to the left of the image and is facing to the right, gazing into the door's large plate glass window. Reflected in the door glass is an image of the same dog seeming to look back at itself toward the left.
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Tonight's sunset from #WarRavagedPortland! 😆
Have a great evening folks, and keep your head up so you can see the truth. ✊🏻
A photo at sunset of brilliant colors on clouds that look like the colors of Fall leaves in pinks, bright oranges, and amber near where the sun went down. Some power poles and power lines cross the image from left to right in silhouette. A few houses and garages are visible either as silhouettes, or by the little light left. As well as a few trees further away. The background sky is a mild gradient of light blue at the horizon, to darker blue up high. Some of the clouds are shaded by the ones that are lit up, so they contrast in blue-grey. Most of the clouds trend as linear from upper right down to lower left, with scattering and complex breaking up of solid pattern.
November 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Also from the harbor near the bridge in Charleston!
Me high giving a "Charlie The Tuna" replica statue at the harbor bridge in Charleston, OR I'm wearing a red shirt and orange baseball cap, with a full white beard and salt and pepper mustache. I'm smiling while looking at the camera, and my body is facing slightly right. The tuna statue has a big white belly, and is facing the same direction I am, it has a big goofy grin in red with the mouth open to the sides and it's blue from the mouth up and down the back. It's wearing big black rim glasses and is looking down to the left. It has a small cap painted red high on it's head.
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Staying dry
Wildcat Creek Covered Bridge turned 100 this year!
#scape #bridge #coveredbridge #Oregon #roadtrip #Siuslaw #forest #river #PNW #rain #car
A photo of a red car with it's headlights on, sitting under the roof of a white painted, wooden covered bridge seen from the opening. The approach to the bridge is wooden plank and wet with rain, the headlights reflect off it. The approach has white painted wooden railing, three rails high. The inside of the bridge is dark, and unlit, with a designed breezeway opening near it's roofline that runs the entire length of the bridge. Behind the bridge is a green expanse of forest, that can be seen through the covered bridge on it's other side as well. Alongside the bridge is a river running into the distance on the left side, where hills topped more green forest, and clouds clinging to the hilltops. There are two signs on the bridge. One on the right upright says: "WEIGHT LIMITS" pictures of three different, and progressively larger truck silhouettes. Top to bottom, smallest to largest, there is text next to each, reading in descending order "10 TONS, 20 TONS, 30 TONS". A sign at the peak, facing out says: "WILD CAT BRIDGE, BUILT BY, LANE COUNTY 1925, A.C. STRIKER BRIDGE SUPT, 18-8W-16B - M22 - 39,4"
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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While out and about this #Halloween, remember to look up!
#Spooktober
A photo of a spooky skeletal creature in the dark near wooden rafters in a ceiling. It holds a scimitar in it's right hand, and it's body is draped in gauzy tattered cloth. It's mouth is open. Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM