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Post by ghost on Apr 23, 2007 12:59:02 GMT -5
hey.. we got out a bit and drove over along the washington side of the columbia river gorge on the weekend.. it was so enjoyable.. and the highlight was that we saw our first eagle in the wild! right up close along the highway on a phone pole.. we drove back and saw it twice but my stupid camera was too slow to get a picture!! but it was gorgeous.. not a bald eagle, but one with a white hood and vest with brown wings.. very large.. he looked at us so funny, like what the heck? we also saw nice alpaca and horses, sheep, cows, farmkitties, the usual.. i like to take photos of old cemeteries.. (i am a ghost afterall..) and while in an old pioneer cemetery at the river's edge these beautiful canada geese came flying in over the river and landed in the cemetery.. i did get pix of them! bdhp took one of his famous panoramas of the river but i think the file is too huge to put up.. he takes 4 or 5 pix right to left then stitches them together in shop.. so cool! anyway.. i think there's so much beauty really in old cemeteries.. i was kinda touched looking at headstones.. i find interesting ones.. this one of 'little ivy'.. she lived only 3 days in the spring of 1938.. but she is clearly not forgotten.. new flowers on her marker.. ghost
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clover
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Post by clover on Apr 23, 2007 13:59:15 GMT -5
Oh all your pictures are beautiful!! Thank you so so much for sharing them. (I have a secret...... I'm very drawn to old cemeteries-- odd how it makes me feel more a part of life somehow.....**scratches head** ) thanks again for sharing-- the headstone for "little Ivy" is so touching. thanks ghost clover
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Post by ghost on Apr 23, 2007 14:16:31 GMT -5
thanks, clover! i'm glad to hear someone else feels the same.. i love the aesthetics of victorian, edwardian, pioneer cemeteries.. i have a whole album at my blog called cemeteria.. come on over and see it anytime if you want.. (but you'll have to forgive my tragic kind of humor is there, too.. hehe) ghost friendlyghost.typepad.com/
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Post by ghost on May 20, 2007 1:30:44 GMT -5
my latest addition to my cemetery pix: found this awesome headstone in the silverlake washington cemetery.. ghost
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Post by ghost on Jul 1, 2007 14:53:51 GMT -5
decided to take a small hike up eagle creek yesterday to see the punchbowl falls.. (all in the col. r. gorge..) 2 miles gradually going uphill up to the falls.. it was hot out! a cool spot between upper & lower punchbowl falls.. punchbowl falls.. we see eagles flying over the gorge but i can never seem to get a picture! this area has the highest number of nesting pairs in the country.. there are 5x the number that they counted back in 1980 and recently the bald eagle has been able to be taken off of the endangered species list.. cool, huh? ghost
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Post by ghost on Jul 2, 2007 12:48:36 GMT -5
thanks, pete.. we weren't prepared for how hot it was and how long it turned out to be.. also should've worn proper hiking shoes.. i've gotten so used to vampire's hours and no sun that i burned me lily white head! (i mean, as my son says, we can always get sunshine on tv..) i thought i was doing ok till we got back to the parking area and i couldn't breathe.. i think it's my weak heart, not like my lungs or asthma or anything like that 'cause i finally leaned over on my knees and suddenly seemed to get enough blood flow to catch my breath.. scared me.. i thought i was healthier! (actually i pride myself on having no muscle tone at all!) hehe.. i know i'll get that eagle pic one of these days.. i'll post it when i do!
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Post by ghost on Jul 5, 2007 13:01:16 GMT -5
now that is a masterpiece! imagine the sculptor bringing out every fine featherline that way.. and you didn't snatch it up at $650k, pete? hehe.. ghost
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Post by ghost on Jul 14, 2007 18:37:47 GMT -5
thought i'd follow up that eagle pic with this big chief i found in hillsboro park today.. dedicated to the american indians.. ghost
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Post by ghost on Oct 29, 2007 13:10:45 GMT -5
we went back through the gorge over the weekend just enjoying the autumn colors.. i put several pics in this album toward the end.. just scroll down to the bottom of the page.. (it's easier to use my album link than to wait for these big pix to upload..) friendlyghost.typepad.com/photos/friendlyghoststuff/index.htmli love october! ghost
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Post by ghost on Feb 23, 2008 20:51:55 GMT -5
lovely lovely day to take a drive over to washington state.. on the way back we decided to take the last remaining ferry that crosses the columbia river from puget island back over to oregon.. finally got our eagle shots.. sometimes it's hard to tell the hawks from eagles and eagles from bald eagles.. since they change from youth to older.. but this guy was awesome.. ghost
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Post by sleepflower on Feb 24, 2008 16:23:33 GMT -5
Those pics are incredible. I was sitting it the car today, waiting for hubby to come out of work and saw a greater spotted woodpecker. Then when hubby came out, he spotted a little wren, which was so cute! Then walking home this evening hubby spotted a sparrowhawk!
Good bird-spotting day!
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Post by ghost on Feb 25, 2008 12:51:58 GMT -5
Awesome! What kind of camera do you use, ghost? hubby got a new nikon digital slr (x14 i think it is?) for xmas.. had to have the zoom lens on and ready to get these.. the bald eagles look spotted like this guy when they're still young.. as they age they get the white/bald head.. we pulled up beside an adult one once along the highway in the gorge and looked right at him.. and him at us! nothing looks at you like an eagle, i swear! but our old camera wouldn't work fast enough and i fumbled the shot.. also we see so many unusual birds here.. woodpeckers, chickadees, tiny little wrens, once a big blue heron was just sitting in the fir tree outside our house! i don't even know what they all are.. got out the n. american bird book to start identifying them all.. turns out many of what we have been seeing are eagles, now that we know the markings.. they are all over up here! so cool.. i love it here.. ghost
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Post by sleepflower on Feb 25, 2008 14:28:43 GMT -5
It sounds so beautiful where you are Ghost. Nice that there are still people who appreciate birds, nature and the like. saw a kestrel today and was told off by a wren! Hubby is really good at identifying birds from their song and then spotting them from where the sound comes from. I'm learning...but he can find grasshoppers and crickets in summer from their chirp too - he is the master! I was an hour early for therapy today, so I went to the cemetary just down the road to see my grandmother, and Ghost, I must take the camera over there next time! It's so beautiful! I kept seeing things and thinking of you! I saw robins, heard, but didn't see a wren, (they get louder as it gets colder!) chaffinches, great tits, blue tits, long-tailed tits (they hang out in big gangs and go 'peep-peep-peep' really loudly. I love them! They're 13 cm long of which 9cm is their long tail! ) Also saw a little dunnock (hedge sparrow) which sat on a grave, looked me in the eye and sang right at me. I love to watch birds.
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Post by sleepflower on Feb 27, 2008 16:16:45 GMT -5
I love that, Pete!
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Post by ghost on Feb 27, 2008 19:28:11 GMT -5
oh i love lightning! and sleepflower, i have found cemeteries to be some of the nicest places around.. does that sound really goth? haha!! honestly, peaceful, and like you said, there are so many different birds.. i photograph them when i can.. supposedly crows/ravens are the dear departed visiting.. i've never felt nervous in a cemetery, (well, only once peeking into a crypt!) but for some reason i'm too afraid to go to the old indian burial grounds around my area.. maybe because i know in that culture they do not like people going there, whereas i think regular cemeteries expect to have visitors.. so it's no disrespect to the dead? maybe it's the indian blood in me? although i did visit chief wahkiakum recently.. he's in a regular graveyard though.. ghost
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