Gray Oregon Coast - Landscapes

Last week on a very gray Oregon Coast. The photos with railroad tracks in them are my brother's, as well as the one right under the two RR tracks and some others might be, too. First two are the Peter Iredale at Ft Steven's State Park. The RR track photos are from the Eagle Sanctuary near Astoria.

Beaver Family

Had a horrible walk tonight - saw a magpie caught in a fishing line. I couldn't get to it, even after trying to walk knee deep in the Yakima river. But, my shoes were sucking into the muck and it was dangling from a tree more than 10 ft in the air. After 30 min I gave up. It will probably take all night for the poor thing to die.
Then, on the way back, I saw the entire beaver family in the pond between the Yakima and the concrete plant. So, I'll try to be happy seeing a healthy baby beaver covered in pond scum.

why dragons fly

The name of this blog came about because a few days before I started it, Chamna Natural Preserve was overrun with dragonflies. But, I prefer dragons. Then dragons fly was already taken, so I tried several different formats to no avail. That day at work I found I'd misspelled piece, peace, so I was laughing at myself and going through double entendres based on peace/piece - I decided my non-existent rock band will be named broken peace.
Who knew there were so many different kinds of dragonflies. I tried to look them up, but the websites I found had poor pictures and were hard to navigate. So, I decided to name them myself. Much more interesting anyway, since naturalist tend to go toward - piliated or naming them after someone they think is famous, but no one else has ever heard of.

From the top:
Photogenicfly
Paranoidfly (a subspecies of flackjacketfly)
Bigbluefly
Bigheadfly
Flackjacketfly
Kissmyfly
Flackjacketfly
Scaryredfly
Camofly

Bateman Island woodpecker

How much do I love my b'day present from my family? It's an R-strap camera strap which allows me to carry my camera like a swashbuckling sword down by my side and grab it quickly when it's needed. This little fella (or fellas, don't know if these are the same bird or a differents ones) only gave me a few seconds to grab the camera, I would have missed him if I'd had to pull it out of my camera bag. I think it's a Downy Woodpecker, but I'm not positive.
























The doves were just hanging out, though

Dogs

Here is a googles map of places I like to walk my dog around the Tricities
View TriCities places to walk dogs in a larger map
No walk tonight, too many things going on. so, I'm going to post some old photos I've taken of dogs.
Up first, my old man Murphy. This isn't a great photo, but it shows is joie de vivre
Murphy's a rescue, got him about 7 years ago, he's about 10 now. He weighs 18 lbs and is less than 8" at the withers, he's a compact little guy. He's very fear aggressive, but getting better all the time.






This is Finn. I always laugh when I see bios of people that say they are outstanding in their fields. Well here is Finn outstanding in her field. Finn is a Shiba Inu-X, also a rescue. This little 20 lb girl was feral the first year of her life. She doesn't speak domestic dog and that has gotten her into trouble. I think she also might be insane. But, I love her.

And here are some photos of dogs that aren't mine.
Starting with my friend, Andrea's dog, Buzz.
This is what Andrea had to say about Buzz and this shot. "Buzz is my prized border collie, the dog who will someday win ribbons and accolades, my prodigy dog, my agility partner and apparently a dog who will always be a source of humor, amusement and joy as I continue to work with him."













I'm still learning the art of taking agility photos, but her are some from our club's trial back in May

July 2009

With any luck this will be a photoblog of what I'm seeing. I have 2 dogs, my dynamic negatives Murphy and Finagle (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law ) and walk them everyday. It was still 98 degrees tonight at 7 pm when we went out. But, I still took some pictures. I used my new R-strap - awesome way of carrying a camera and brought along my Canon Rebel Xti and my EF 100-400 f 4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens, currenlty the only lens I have. I'm in despirate need of something with a wider angle.