Road of Peas

This was a fun picture to catch. I was at the top of Skinner’s Butte watching and photographing the Mighty Cloud Over Eugene as it morphed in the winds, and at the very top briefly ducked into the woods. (Me, that is, not the Mighty Cloud.) There was a single beam of light, and the waterdrop sat at center stage. Wowsers!

And now comes Single Drop, a one man band in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is Asta, who has a very pink page, has used this waterdrop to grace a comment.

Well chosen, This is Asta, and thank you very much!

(her page finished loaded and is no longer very pink)

All Drop of Water Posts

Here’s another triple header, with two old veterans and one neophyte hotlink. The picture above was taken just past the spur up the cinder cones of Four-In-One Cone, looking north at Mt. Jefferson. Mt. Washington is closer, but hidden behind Four-In-One. This is a picture looking south from Four-In-One Cone, looking down at where the above pictyre was taken.

It’s a great hike, busy like all the trails which start on the Old Highway 242. It tees into the Pacific Crest Trail after 5.5 miles.

This picture, and the two pictures which follow, have been hotlinked into a forum in Hungary. There are a lot of English lyrics, other than that I’m clueless.

The Light in the Forest pictures as a category are my most popular hotlinks. The first one has probably edged into the double digits now, but the second has only shown up a couple times, once when I let HTV go quiet, and once when it disappeared before I could blog it. I’m glad to see it again, so I can show it off again.

Thanks thrice to tyra89 írta. I see now that this is tyra89 irta’s blog. Doh.

Thanks very much! tyra89 irta

Here’s another one from Far Cartouche. chopped liver ? has hotlinked the very first picture of Robin’s and Noah. They were in shock for a few weeks, what with me wielding the laser like photoshop tools on their fragile body parts, and then thrusting them into horrible situations. Or at least, into strange ones. They did okay for a while, then the box died and life has never been the same.

These two kitties served as announcement mascots for my participation in the various Friday Cat Blogging Carnivals, primarily the Modulator and the Carnival of the Cats. The kitties are Puppie’s, probably the ones in the birthing picture. I selected them out of the kitchen, andin this instance, placed them against a color tweaked sky. Each week I would figure out something new I could do with photoshop.

Then I got a fulltime job, and my partner went off to care for parents, and it’s going to take me some doing to track these critters down again.

chopped liver ? has placed them in comments with dozens of other very cute pictures, on erianoillimmik’s page. Way cute, check them out.

Thanks! chopped liver ?

This critter was just hanging around. I couldn’t see any obvious damage, but it wasn’t flying, and didn’t really want to move much. I wonder now if it was all jammed up w/ spider web. It was nice to get a picture of a bee from “below” like this, back, side, and face shots being so easy to achieve.

juggernaut of bronze and alcohol has posted my picture entitled Wonuded Bee on Machine Gun Noises myspace page in the friend’s comments section, amidst a partying maelstrom of inspired babble. He says:

So when I Google Image Searched “Wounded Bee”
I got this

Just think of this as a lesson in effective tagging.

Thanks juggernaut of bronze and alcohol!

This is a cool one. I tracked that cloud for a few hours across the southern Willamette Valley last year after work. This picture was earlier, and a few miles to the northwest, looking southeast. Later, after I had finished my walk, and was driving zig zag south and east watching the cloud change from perspective and winds, stopped and took this picture looking due east.

LAW is using it as a tiled wallpaer on his myspace page. I like this one, too, just like Dzeina’s use of the wild roses picture. This looks good.

Thanks LAW!

I took this picture a long time ago, with my first camera, an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II. Puppie is a kitty, and she’s the mama here.

This picture was posted by Maradona in a forum on BAC session 2006 which, who knows, might even involve that subject. It’s in French, there is a post with a long string of cute kitty pictures, and soon after one with puppies. My picture is last in line, and then has this sig:

While vile mutants still draw breath, there can be no peace. While obscene heretics’ hearts still beat, there can be no respite. While faithless traitors still live, there can be no forgiveness

I’m wondering whether Puppie and her new crew are seen as fifth columns? No worries! they’ve all been dead for decades.

Thanks Maradona

This was taken in Paddy’s Valley, at the Douglas County trailhead on 2153. It’s the road you get to by taking 21 all the way to the end, and then keep going. The little spur that the trailhead is on isn’t on the map, but there is a string of text right there, across from the road that runs up the hill to the northwest. There’s a big pile of debris sitting in a clearing (the little white splotch on the map) and the trail parking is on top. It’s shadeless, dirty gravel on boulders, and generally not the coolest place in the forest to hang out.

However, the view is superb, and I took advantage of the drizzly overcast to hang out here after hiking. It was partly sunny, party rainy, and the rainbows were popping up every few minutes, blazing for a moment, and then gone again. I sat reading, looking up when the drizzle came, and managed to snag one.

Marius has hotlinked it onto his myspace general information, where it looks very cool with the strange map in the background. I keep looking for Main Stage, and Whitebird.

Wherever! It’s cool. Thanks Marius!

PS: I had this entry saved from a few days ago with “Leaves Falling” in the title. I was probably out of it, but maybe Marius is working through the collection.

This picture was taken on the Woodpecker Loop Trail at William L. Finley Wildlife Reserve. I was walking the loop in a clockwise direction, and this picture was taken at the crest of the hill just before reaching the lookout playform. I came very close to not taking it, it really seemed marginal at the time.

I took the picture, and now Unicorn Dream Attack has hotlinked it into a message to m83. This has doubled the unique site hit rate at Middle-Fork (with the help of Dzeina Pilgrim and Our Wild Roses.) These two have taken over the top spot for most requested url from cgi-bin and /. That’s quite an achievement, beating out the slow motion dance the spammers I and do twirling on the .cgis.

Thanks Unicorn Dream Attack! and m83!