Friday was a remarkably warm Indian summer day at Tseriadun State Recreation Site’s Agate Beach. There were even people in bathing suits, sunbathing. (My fleece jacket was unzipped, but a bathing suit? No thank you.) The first thing we noticed was how much the beach sand composition had changed since our Tuesday visit. Then the [...]
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The Whale of October
Posted in Environment, Landscapes, Literary Nature Writing, Oregon, Uncategorized, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Agate Beach, Autumn Migration Gray Whale Sighting, Curry County Oregon, Oregon Coast Photography, Port Orford OR, Tseriadun State Recreation Site on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Eugene after Forty Years
Posted in Oregon, Uncategorized, tagged City Centers, City Planning, Downtown Parks, Eugene OR historic city development, Eugene Oregon on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently graduated from college, I was ready to leave LA. I had worked for several years in city planning, learning the ropes. But it all seemed pretty futile — even 40 years ago. Then suddenly, opportunity presented itself. A late night call from Eugene, Oregon. An offer of a job providing city planning assistance to [...]
Book Review: Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Review, kids books about moving West on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Written in 1980 by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat with pictures by Byron Barton, Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport, manages, in less than 500 words, to paint a somewhat painful and hilariously accurate picture of what goes through a young mind, faced with a first major relocation. Having moved eight times by my thirteenth birthday [...]
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