This isn’t what I intended to post for today, but my desktop computer (where I do all my photo editing) is presently out of commission, so I’m making do until I can fix it. I took this sunset shot from Lone Oak Cemetery on the corner of 3rd Ave. and Fern Ridge Rd.

Guest photographer Jim Mullholand caught a great moment, with the rainbow right over that John Deere tractor. It looks like it belongs in an advertisement for John Deere. Thanks, Jim!

Guest photographer Jim Mullholand claims to have a photography lesson for us today: Photography Lesson: If you set your camera on the car roof and take a picture, the roof may show up in the photo and ruin the picture. I have to disagree. If Jim hadn’t said the bottom part of the photo was

Today is this month’s City Daily Photo theme day, and this time it’s “animals.” My favorite animals in town are some black cows which live in a field along Washington St. I drive down that road on purpose just so I can say hi to them when they’re near the fence. Yes, I am easily

Guest photographer Terri Jo Adams has been keeping us up-to-date on the reconstruction of TG Nichol Plumbing in nearby Aumsville (see the last update from a month ago). The building was destroyed by a tornado a year ago December. The building is looking good! I’m glad it seems to be nearing completion. Thanks, Terri J

Guest photographer and all-around cool guy Jim Mullholand, despite my messing up the spelling of his last name on a regular basis, continues to let me post his gorgeous photos here in this blog. Today’s photo is one he took in nearby Scio during our area’s recent great big huge snowfall of January, 2012. Look

I made it out of the house for a bit yesterday evening, so I took advantage of things to get some sunset shots. I freely admit to under-exposing and over-saturating the photo to bring out the colors in the sky. The tree on the right had the sun directly behind it, so it’s extra shiny.

I’ve taken pictures of this bridge before, but here it is again. It’s a pedestrian bridge put it last year to create easier access to Riverfront Park. It’s orange because the bridge itself was reclaimed from elsewhere, and the metal on the bridge has been exposed to the elements for many years.

The weather has kept me home this week, so my chances of taking photos have obviously been slim. So here’s one of my neighbor’s dog, Taz. My neighbor told me what kind of dog he is, but heck if I can remember. I do remember Taz is a mix. That’s what I get for waiting

Guest photographer Rita Elkins saw this collapsed house and wondered what was up. Turns out, by a check of guest photographer John Brandt’s Flickr photostream (click on the small photo at right to see John’s full-sized photo of the house), that this house on Florence St. is being cleared out for more constructio

Between the snow and the mass amounts of rain, we haven’t had much sun lately. But for part of the day on the 21st, the sun forced its way through some rather dark clouds to remind us it still exists.

Here’s my contribution to the great big huge snowfall of January, 2012, which melted several days ago. This is a juniper bush with a bit of snow on it.

Yep, I’m still posting snow photos, despite the snow having melted days ago. Snow doesn’t happen around here often, so I like to take full advantage of it when it happens. Besides, when guest photographers like Patrick send in such pretty photos, what else am I going to do? So here’s another snow photo fro

We have a new guest photographer today! GWolfe brings us this beautiful snow image. The description: The little North Fork of the Santiam on Sunday, 1-15-2012, before the storm became a major weather event and disaster for many. Thanks, GWolfe! Send in more anytime. Tomorrow I’ll be posting another snow photo, so come

We have more pictures (see below) of area flooding, this time courtesy of guest photographer Terri Jo Adams (see also: yesterday’s photo by Denny Barnes. Her photos were taken on the 18th and 19th in the Stayton, Aumsville, and Turner areas. So much water… thankfully our weather yesterday was a lot less wet, but

We interrupt your regularly scheduled snow photos to bring you flood photos. It’s been an exciting week around here, weather-wise. And by “exciting” I mean crappy. Denny Barnes braved the elements yesterday to get some shots around town. His description: I had to make a run to the store and had my little c

The great big huge snowfall of January may be but a memory, but that doesn’t mean I can’t post more photos of it, possibly until spring. Guest photographer Patrick sent in a few very nice photos, one of which I will run today. Another will go up tomorrow. His description: We had a little more

Dogs love snow. It’s a proven scientific fact (see also: yesterday’s photo). Guest photographer Denny Barnes offers up more supporting evidence. His description: I grabbed my little pocket camera and took our eight month old Jack Russel, Reggie out to play in the snow. She thought this is great! I now have a yar

Yesterday, I asked folks to submit their snow-related photos, and three of you came through for me (thanks!!). I had trouble deciding which to post first, so here they are in no particular order. First up is guest photographer Terri Jo Adams showing us her “lil Turbo-pup taking a moment out to enjoy the sun

As promised, here’s the second sunset image taken by guest photographer Denny Barnes (see also: Mary’s Peak Sunset). The colors and the silhouette of that tree make for a gorgeous combination. For the curious, the camera settings (shot in manual) were: ISO 200, f16, 1/6sec, 50mm. Thanks, Denny!

I don’t know how it went elsewhere, but at my house here in Stayton, we had almost no snow on the ground yesterday. It wasn’t until late last night did I see much of anything, but I went out in the cold, waded through the mass amounts of the white stuff (which can so plainly

Guest photographer Denny Barnes is in the beautiful sunset spirit with this image. Just gorgeous. His description: We sure have been having beautiful sunsets the last few days. Tonight was my first chance to go out and get a few shots. This was taken from a hill above Stayton looking towards Marys Pk. For those

Guest photographer Rita Elkins has a new friend. Her description: This Red Headed Woodpecker has been outside in the trees for the last few days…so I went outside today…to try to get some photos of him…and much to my surprise…he didn’t fly away…he just kept circling around the tree…

I thought the Bird & Hat Inn, a bed and breakfast on 3rd Ave., was looking pretty the other day, so I took a picture. The leftover Christmas decorations don’t seem out of place to me, even though it’s January.

Guest photographer Jim Mullholand brings us yet another gorgeous sunrise, which he describes as “sunrise with a few showers in the southern Willamette Valley.” Thanks, Jim!

I took today’s photo of the little bridge on 4th Ave., near Water St., one of my favorite locations in town.

Guest photographer Patrick brings us today’s photo of some scarecrows. They can be found in a large field along Cascade Highway, near where it turns into 1st Ave. This field floods every time we get some good rain, and yet I’ve never been over there to photograph it when it turns swampy. I should do

Guest photographer Jim Mullholand has been taking some amazing sunset images lately. This one has gorgeous big oak tree silhouetted by the setting sun, complete with stars up above. Jim also sent along a couple more sunset images I’ll run this week. Thanks, Jim!

Moooooooooooooooooooooooo. And, no, that’s not snow on the ground. Whenever I take pictures of the cows in this field along Jefferson St., I have to balance the dark cow with the light colored grass, and the grass always ends up way too bright. Making the photo black and white made it look less neon-like and

It was foggy yesterday, so I had intended to go by Lone Oak Cemetery to see if I could get some photos. I didn’t end up doing that, though, since a funeral was in progress and I thought it would be rude to go traipsing about with my camera while that was happening. I did