Today’s Walk: Wildfire Impacts Go Beyond the Fire

We had some residual wildfire smoke in the air as Baxter and I began this morning’s walk and it got me thinking. Wildfires throughout the west continue to spread devastation to the lives and property of those in their path. The impacts also reach beyond the actual flames and into neighboring communities. We have new …

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Today’s Walk: Life in Sepia Tone

Smoke from the wild fires around the west have engulfed the coast. After waking up to day two of a dark and gloomy orange sky, Baxter and I headed down to Old Home Beach to take a look. Our landscape is awash with sepia tone and continues to provide an eerie vibe. A number of …

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40 Years Ago Today

May 18, 2020 Today is the 40th anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens (MSH). I have a personal connection to that event. At the time, I was an undergraduate at Oregon State University living in Corvallis, Oregon. The first eruption didn’t really impact Corvallis because the winds pushed it East darkening instead …

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