Showing posts with label oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oregon. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

THE THINGS GOOD PEOPLE DO

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by Cecil Morris Portland’s ‘frog taxi’ offers a life-saving lift to a struggling species.  Volunteers shuttle Northern red-legged frogs acro...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

BOWSER THE RUNAWAY TORTOISE

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by Cecil Morris Slow and steady runaway tortoise crosses highway before Portland police rescue — Oregon Public Broadcasting . August 2, 2024...
Sunday, May 05, 2024

WAYWARD BIRD CROSSES OCEAN AND BORDERS

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by Cecil Morris When hobbyist photographer Michael Sanchez snapped this picture of a blue rock-thrush subspecies on the coast of northern Or...
Tuesday, November 07, 2023

WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL BAT WEEK, 2023

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by Cecil Morris Bureau of Land Management wildlife technician photographed William ShakespEAR, a female Townsend's big-eared bat, in Jac...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

FIRE SEASON

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by Laton Carter Smoke turns the morning light orange on Saturday in this photo taken near the Huckleberry Lookout, provided by the Cedar Cre...
Monday, September 13, 2021

AFTER DROUGHT IN CENTRAL OREGON

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Penelope Scambly Schott  is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her newest book is  On Dufur Hill , poems about the cycle ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

THE BOOTLEG FIRE IS CREATING ITS OWN WEATHER

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by Francine Witte As the Bootleg fire in Southern Oregon rages on, the massive wildfire is creating its own weather systems. "The fire ...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

PRAYER AGAINST HEALING

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by Liz Ahl A satellite view of the Bootleg Fire burning in Oregon last week.Credit: NOAA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CIRA via The New...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

NEW START

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by Matt Witt Photo by Matt Witt It used to be that if you walked along Bear Creek that runs next to town you could see the stream only in a ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

IMPOSSIBLE

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by Diana Morley A neighborhood destroyed by fire is seen as wildfires devastate the region, Thursday Sept. 10, 2020 in Talent, Ore. (AP Phot...
Friday, September 18, 2020

YOU SHOULD WRITE A POEM, YIAYIA—MY GRANDCHILDREN TEXT ME

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by Pamela Devereaux Wilson our well stopped working five days ago i hand-pump water from storage containers boil for cleaning, food prep and...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

THE EXECUTIONER'S FACE

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by Matt Witt Dozens still missing in Oregon. Jackson County District 5 firefighter Captain Aaron Bustard works on a smoldering fire in...

FIRES THIS TIME

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Clackamas, Oregon, September 12, 2020 by Carolyn Martin Dozens still missing in Oregon. Burnt roses are seen outside a destroyed home ...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

FIRE SEASON IN OREGON

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by Penelope Scambly Schott The white daybed in the corner between crammed bookshelves An afghan of crocheted squares drape...

FIRE INCANTATION

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by Miriam Steinbach     oh, bitter flame     run run until you find home again     I know you tripped over your own skinny legs be...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

THE RUT

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by Pepper Trail They are coming out of the hills into town Young bucks, spiked with peachfuzz velvet Old bulls, necks thick and ha...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

THE BAKER'S SONG

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by Tricia Knoll The Supreme Court on Monday passed up the chance to decide whether a baker’s religious objections to same-sex marriage ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

TOWARD A GENTLER GOOD NIGHT

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by Elane Gutterman N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy signs the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act Friday, April 12, 2019 at the New J...
Friday, February 08, 2019

TIC TAC TOE

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by Matt Witt The Oregon Senate’s Housing Committee advanced a bill that would enact a statewide rent control policy and restrict evicti...
Friday, December 21, 2018

TONIGHT

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by  Penelope Scambly Schott The Oregon state legislature passed a law that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, that will allow the cit...