Author: Mike VanDeWalker

Weather

For years I have run my own weather station here at home. It is a great way to keep track of rainfall, temperatures and wind at home when I am on the road. The information from my station is now included on the right sidebar here on my blog. Clicking on the badge will bring…

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Happy Spring!

Have a flower on me. You have 40 to pick from. You can just click on Play Slideshow to see them all. [photospace]

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Photo Of The Week # 225 and Back To The Coast

No trip to the Southern Oregon Coast is complete without a stop at Shore Acres State Park. Shore Acres is located South of Coos Bay and Charleston. More information on getting there is here. I know I talked about the park in one of the articles below. Here are a few things I didn’t talk…

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Working with redwood

I’m working on a project for a friend that needs an image from the redwoods area that I visited near Crescent City, CA last month. While I did burn the images to a CD to send to him I wanted him to be able to see what I came up with in advance as snail…

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Images ready to hang in new show.

I will have these four images hanging at NEDCO at 212 Main St. in Springfield, Oregon beginning Friday the 8th of April. They will be hanging along with a number of other images belonging to photographers from the Emerald Photographic Society.

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We Are Back. Be Afraid!

I’m not a real fan of using feeder shots in my posts but before the blooms start, the chances to get shots are limited. This is a male Rufous Hummingbird sporting his best look in an attempt to get the girls interested. There are more photos and more information on hummingbirds on my site.

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Back In Time – Weekly Photo # 224

This weeks photo is of the Cain House in the old gold mining town of  Bodie, California. If you are into ghost hunting, the Cain House is one of the better places to hang around in Bodie. It is said that the past maid killed herself in this house. This supposedly has something to do…

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Return Of The Rufous

I won’t to much rambling on about this one as it is getting late. After three years of the Rufous Hummingbirds returning on March 20th, this year it took until April 2nd for them to show up. Glad to have them back and I hope to have more images of them for you. The next…

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Waves, sun and Shore Acres

It is hard to beat a sunny day at Shore Acres State Park on the Oregon Coast. If you can catch it the day after a storm the wave action is the best. Once in a while you can catch it with the wind blowing off shore so the tops are blowing off of the…

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New links added

If you take a look at the right menu bar you will notice the addition of some link categories and new links. Those links under Classyshots are related to me or my sites. Vendors will get you to the sites of manufactures who’s products I use and endorse. I have added a category called Locations….

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