Posts Tagged ‘oregon’

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Dryland wheat farming in north central Oregon. White-gold sunlight. April.

SATURDAY NIGHT, CONDON, ORE. It’s very late and very dark. I’m asleep because that’s what I do often when it’s very late and dark, in our hotel room in Condon. Off to the side of the bed I suddenly start hearing some shambling, scuffling noises. Then some exhalations of exasperation and then a timid, persistent [...]

Today was one of knowledge, seeing and experience: the kind of day I hold as the highest value in my esteem. We are staying in the Hotel Condon, built in 1920 and recently restored–carefully, tastefully. There is a pervasive obsession with the Rat Pack here. Most of the time the public areas are bathed with [...]

Yesterday’s drive into Condon, was during the long-shadow part of the day in the dryland wheat farming hills of north central Oregon. Wind farms have been expanding ferociously in this corridor, and ones of truly epic proportion are clustered in the dozens, hundreds in total. Here is a quick, 20-second clip of the beautiful shadows [...]

Mr. Pencil and I are heading out this afternoon on a weekend trip typical of us: a rambling, informal Oregon-exploratory thing that usually leaves us dusty and informed. We’re headed to Condon, a small and mostly forgotten town in the midst of the Oregon wheat hill country. That is to say: about 2.5 hours east [...]

I kind of forgot to mention that right before my surgery we spent the weekend in Sunriver and Bend, Ore. I suppose I had other things on my mind. One of the memorable things was the gorgeous-day strenuous hike up Smith Rock (near Terrbonne, Ore.). Autumn was with us and did put up some photos [...]

Hey everybody in Oregon! Don’t forget to vote! Tomorrow is the last day to drop off your ballot. Don’t mail it–it’s too late. Just drop it off at one of the ballot drop-off places, say, like the Multnomah County Elections office, which happens to be a block-and-a-half from my house. So very useful! I can [...]