26 September 2011

Visitor from Colorado!


Gil landed an assignment in extreme Northern California.  Medford is the closest airport. He came in a few hours early so he could show me how to ride on dirt. He also ate all the mint chip ice cream, potato chips, and cookies.


Zoom!

Swoosh!
I took this photo. Bad, eh?


19 September 2011

Fire and Water....



When you grow your own, you can let them get as red as you want. I haven't seen serrano chiles beyond green in a store in a very long time.


The Ashland watershed.



02 September 2011

Sharp-shinned Hawk



Two Days Smooshed Together! Ride Fish Lake > Lake of the Woods and Mom Visits!

That'd be Mt McLoughlin....
Brown Mountain watershed.
Brown Mountain lava flow with McLoughlin....
A lava macro-moment
Trees
Lake of the Woods Resort. Your Adirondack chair awaits!
McLoughlin with lovely jagged bits showing. Remnants of the eruption. Blew the whole side off! Ka-powblooey!
Ellen Oma Mom Barth prefers a more rustic chaise. Both are Wood/wood.
This is a fissure, fer sher. Brown Mt lava fields.
More of the same....
Yes, and yes.
The cushiest mountain bike trail imaginable. Shady bits, interpretive signs, passing room....
The oak that stopped the rolling Forester. I stop by to express gratitude.
Road-cut wonders on Green Springs Hwy.
Oma "Rocky" Barth in the field!

Those layers! Those layers! Mom fainted from the geological richness.