Beautiful Flowers at Mom and Dad's

These Irises have been growing here for over 20 years,
but they have never bloomed...until now. Amazing!

Irises aren't the only flowers in bloom...

What a spectacular show of colors, and just in time.
Happy 28th Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

Urban logging, urban squirrel, urban sunset

After five hours and two broken winches we finally got this bad boy loaded.

We hauled over two tons of walnut wood out to the hill.

Neighborhood squirrel on break

Veiw from Skinner butte to the west.

Sunday Stroll

Wood-Mizer and a Brewers Dream

The newest toy on the hill, the Wood-Mizer LT40 diesel.
Who wants to build something?!

Dennis and Jon in the land of giant vats at the Rogue brewery in Newport.

It's spring time on the hill!

RIP CITY!

Jandy, Jamie, Ann, Dennis, and I went and saw the Trailblazers crush the Phoenix Suns late last month. It was quite the show.

More van jams

I'm beginning to think the moving van is just a front and that these are really just homeless musicians. I see these guys all the time now....

morning run in Buenos Aires

I shot these between 7:30 and 8:30. Morning is a great time to get a feel for a city. Lots of sweeping and delivering and bustling. I decided to upload the whole album onto Flikr since there were too many photos to fit on our MTF blog. Also, this way I can get some photos critiqued. I really love my little camera (Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS), but I could use some tips on improving photo quality.

Here is the slideshow: http://tiny.cc/fXnP7
It should start playing automatically.
If you click on "Show Info" in the upper right corner it will show some descriptions of some of the pics. You can use the arrow buttons at the top of the screen to control the slideshow.

Downtime

Pretty interesting scene spotted yesterday about 7:45 am in Praça São Salvador in the Flamengo bairro in Rio de Janeiro.

This kind of stuff makes me wish I was a better photographer.

There is a short video at the end of the post....

Colors of Buenos Aires I

Colors of Buenos Aires II

Feeling Nostalgic

It was Grandpa's birthday on Saturday and Grandma's 2 weeks ago. Here are some old time photos we thought would be appropriate to mark the occasion.
Grandpa caught that trout over 60 years ago. The prize was a fly rod and a camp mess kit.
The other photo was taken before they were married, over 63 years ago.

Do not mess with these guys

Baldwin/Stauss mafia will make you swim with the fishes.

Board Meeting, ready for lift off

Board Meeting, Views from the Slope

Board Meeting, Caught by the Fuzz

Why the long face?

Oh....

Not good.We'll always have the memories.

Board Meeting, Getting Ready

Ugliest. Shirt. Ever.