On the Road With T-
Day 9: La Pine to PDX
Lava Lands
Lava Butte
The Lava Ness Tree Interpretive Sign
The Lava Ness Tree
Clinging to Life Interpretive Sign
Oregon sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum)
Hotrock penstemon (Penstemon deustus)
Mountain spray (Holodiscus dumosus)
Davidson’s Penstemon (Penstemon davidsonii)
Gray rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa)
Sulfur buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)
Wax currant (Ribes cereum)
NASA Training @ Lava Lands
Apollo 7 Walter Cunningham
Looking at the photo of Cunningham, I couldn't help but think of the original Lost in Space uniforms.
Speaking of space: The Willamette Meteorite
Tomanowos, A.K.A. The Willamette Meorite
A ship's capstan
Ellis Hughes and his son in 1902
Kids on the Willamette Meteorite at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
At the AMNH today
A 28-pound chunk of the meteorite that Darryl Pitt, cow-owner of The Sky is Falling, had hoped to fetch 1.3 million dollars for in a 2007 auction.
A piece of Tomanowos returned to the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde
Bend: Pop 99,178
Bends' Brooks Scanlon Lumber Company
Bend's Shevlin-Hixon Mill
Bend's Mill District Today
Bend has The Last Blockbuster Video Store in the World
Logging
Spotted Owls & Marbled Murrelets
The Owl and My Pussy Cat
T- (Cartoonist Americanus) and a Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis)
Nesting Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus)
The front and back cartoons from “I Survived MAMU 1994 Season” sweatshirt.
Redmond: Pop 26,215
Redmond Hotshots
Madras: Pop 6,046
Warm Springs: Pop 2,945
Warm Springs' Women in 1902
Warm Springs Fish Falls
Oregon Cults
Rajneeshpuram
Heaven's Gate
Edmund Creffield & the The Holy Rollers
Mt. Hood
Mazamas on the summit of Mount Hood, July 19, 1894
The Columbia Gorge
Road Construction in 1915
Multnomah Falls
Greetings from Sam
Mom, I hope you're staying in shape. Maybe jogging on the bus? Remember, we'll be doing a hiking program all next week. Six miles in the Dunes including the Dune of Death. Oh my.