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| Lupin - Oregon 2024 |
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| Agriculture - Oregon 2024 |
Photos taken on my drive from Colfax, Washington to Boise, Idaho. I hadn't realized that the route would take me through part of Oregon on a major interstate. Nice views provided by a well-placed scenic viewpoint.
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| Oregon Thanks You - Oregon 2024 |
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| Tombstones - Eugene 2021 |
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| White Flowers - Eugene 2021 |
Wandering around the cemetery after visiting Baby Seymour.
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| Margaret's Preliminary Bathroom Remodel Sketch - Eugene 2021 |
Very preliminary. I don't know if anything from the sketch has made it into the final plan.
I saw it laying on our breakfast table in the Eugene AirBnB. Anyway . . . what interests me is that I find the iPhone photo of the sketch to have a certain trompe l'oeil quality. ("Trompe l'oeil is a style of painting that's so realistic that it appears to be three-dimensional.")
By the way, trompe l'oeil is pronounced "trump loy."
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| Sunset (Summer Solstice) - Eugene 2021 |
End of the longest day, looking west from the Eugene Masonic Cemetery.
8:48 PM, according to the photo's file data. I used a Canon G5XII for the shot.
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| Baby Seymour - Eugene 1984 |
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| Baby Seymour - Eugene 2009 |
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| Baby Seymour - Eugene 2021 |
In 1984 Mike was wandering around an old cemetery in Eugene with tripod and twin-lens reflex when he spotted Baby Seymour’s tombstone almost covered with ivy. After developing the negative and printing it, he noticed the spider lurking in the lower right.
Returning in 2009 he found that the ivy had been removed and Baby Seymour's tombstone had been somewhat refreshed.
Last month, 37 years after the first photograph, there was still no trace of ivy, but alas, the inscription has started to become somewhat illegible.
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| Scrooge McDuck, Jesus - Eugene 2021 |
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| Toy Ceiling - Eugene 2021 |
There are many curious and droll tableaux to be seen throughout judit's house. Found object art? Conceptual art?
You be the judge.
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| Spring Rolls - Eugene 2021 |
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| Tam's Place - Eugene 2021 |
Excellent Vietnamese cuisine takeout . . . the spring rolls in particular were visually striking. While others waited in line during some warmish weather, Mike scurried over to a nearby grocery store to pick up some Ninkasi IPAs.
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| Tam's Place Ordering - Eugene 20221 |
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| Prius, Self-Portrait - Eugene 2021 |
We hadn't asked specifically for a Prius, so we were a bit surprised when we got one. This was Mike's first hybrid experience. Instead of a gear shift lever, the car had a front-mounted knob, the operation of which Mike finally figured out. Almost.
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| Bakery Door - Eugene 2021 |
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| Hideaway Bakery Products - Eugene 2021 |
It was too crowded on our first visit Sunday morning. Much better early Monday. Quite tasty!
iPhone photos.
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| Cat - Eugene 2021 |
Usually the small Canon doesn't exhibit any depth of field issues. But here, we see that the leaves are in focus and the cat is interestingly blurred.
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| Toothbrush Art - Eugene 1998 |
Toothbrushes carefully placed just so in judit's backyard in 1998. Found Object Art? Conceptual Art? You be the judge.
Below, toothbrushes seen last month in her backyard. One speculates that they are the same objects that were seen in 1998. Maybe.
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| Bluebird Art, Toothbrushes - Eugene 2021 |
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| Plastic Sunflowers - Eugene 2021 |
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| Love Pillow - Eugene 2021 |
Hali and Mike's second Airbnb experience . . . the first one was in Yokohama.
The interesting thing is that it was kind of expensive. But that was because they were having the Olympic track and field trials that week in Eugene (which we hadn't known about in advance).
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| Go Ducks - Eugene 2021 |
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| Car Rental, Baggage Pickup Areas (Eugene Airport) - Eugene 2021 |
Quite a contrast between EUG and SFO. Nerve-shattering bedlam vs quite mellow vacant spaces.
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| Fern Ridge Lake - Oregon 2021 |
Taken during the approach to Eugene's airport. Pastoral views . . . I think that's Fern Ridge Lake, based on my eyeballing the Google map.
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| Dog Outside Grocery Store - Portland 2019 |
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| Crocuses No 1 - Portland 2019 |
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| Crocuses No 2 - Portland 2019 |
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| Farm Workshop - Marin County 2017 |
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| Thermometer - Marin County 2017 |
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| White Door - Oregon 2009 |
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| Roses - Portland 2015 |
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| Shakespeare Garden - Portland 2015 |
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| Laurelhurst Park - Portland 2015 |
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| Oregon Grape - Portland 2015 |
