HOLY CRAP - we're standing outside taking photos and looking at the sun (SAFELY! with filters and glasses and special apps!) and housemate gets this photo and then ZOOMS IN - there's a PARACHUTER!
Zoom in right below the sun and you'll see them! We're in Eugene, Oregon, which one of you is photo bombing the eclipse?? :D
📣 #OREGON can be dangerously misleading. On the surface it seems blue but much of the state is radically red. Help ensure Democrats hold onto the centerpiece of the West Coast; donate today! #Blue24
I had an amazing weekend, I’m so happy spring is finally here. It’s so freeing to carry everything you need on your back and be completely surrounded by nature. I feel so much safer alone in the middle of the forest than camping along forest roads. I’m considering this spring training while the Cascades are still covered in snow. This trail is ideal for that.
Our local #CoopersHawk pair continues to be active around their nest site. This is I believe the male, who is noticeably smaller than the female. He seems to have a bit of small-vertebrate lunch stuck to the side of his beak! The nest is farther along in construction than last week, although I have not seen the female setting on it yet. #Birding#Oregon
“#Oregon Supreme Court: 10 Republican state senators who staged record-long walkout last year to stall bills on #abortion, #transgender health care & #GunRights cannot run for reelection.
..upholds sec of state’s decision to disqualify the senators from ballot under voter-approved measure aimed at stopping such boycotts. Measure ..amended state constitution to bar lawmakers from reelection if they have more than 10 unexcused absences”
“Corte Suprema de #Oregon: 10 senadores estatales republicanos que realizaron una huelga récord el año pasado para detener proyectos de ley sobre #aborto, #atención médica para personas #transgénero y #Derechos a las armas no pueden postularse para la reelección.
... confirma la decisión del estado de descalificar a los senadores de la boleta electoral en virtud de una medida aprobada por los votantes destinada a detener tales boicots. Medida... enmendó la constitución estatal para impedir la reelección de los legisladores si tienen más de 10 ausencias injustificadas”.
Finished! KING TIDE, 10x7”, watercolor on cotton. Capturing the energy of the king tide we witnessed two weeks ago at Neptune Beach outside Yachats, OR.
"#Oregon’s #cherry harvest, one of the state’s biggest sources of agricultural income, is in dire straits because of #ClimateChange this year, and growers need emergency relief."
#GOP rep:
“Unfortunately, our cherry producers have been facing severe hardships due to unprecedented and adverse weather conditions in Oregon such as ice storms, excessive #heat, and #wildfire smoke impacts caused by a warming #climate.”
Thrilled by this sudden upswell of over 100 snow geese that just rose out of the marsh where I was walking and then soared about together as though they wanted to get a murmuration going.
I'm very glad to see farmers win the right to repair their tractors. It's a win for consumers against bogus #IP objections from manufacturers. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913
But it adds this proviso: "Legislation should acknowledge the risks borne by unskilled repairers and allow original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to provide parts assemblies rather than individual components to reduce the risk of injury."