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River Garden
It was time for the first backpack of the year. The mountains are...
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Arch
Having been an extremely wet spring, the Deschutes River is still very high,...
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Lupine Perfume
Most of the year this country is shades of brown and gold but now...
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Home Sweet Home
My friend Kelly and I walked upstream from the mouth of the Deschutes River...
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Goslings
There was lots of company along the river.
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Sunbather
We weren't the only ones enjoying the spring sunshine. We saw two gopher...
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Homestead
We walked upstream about eleven miles from the Columbia to Harris Canyon, the...
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Lilac Perfume
One of the fields had a thick lilac hedgerow, a bit too far away to catch the...
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Through the shed
We walked on past the crumbling home, useable farm equipment and a modern...
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Crags and Lumps
The next mile past the homestead took us past spectacular cliffs. Gamboling...
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Distant Sheep
Sad to say, I don't own a yard long lens. These blurry spots are...
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Basalt Fan
The cliffs themselves were stunning, even without flora and fauna.
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Monkey See
Here and there, water seeped from the cliff and harbored lovely blossoms.
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Sweet and Spicy
Some of the flora was sweet scented like the lupine and some spicy like the...
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Shooting Star
I usually think of Shooting Stars as bog lovers. These seem to love...
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Morning Lupine
Everything was lovely backlit with morning light and dew dusting the leaves.
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Trailside View
All told, we spent two nights and three days on this adventure. We saw...
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North America
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