Paddle Boats on Lost Lake
Mt. Hood National Forest. Oregon. July 7, 2014
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 8, 2014
Today is a hectic day, so I am diverting from Yellowstone since I can use a photo I edited earlier today for use as a background for a new watermark I was working on for another one of my endeavors, Illuminated Imaging (https://www.facebook.com/IlluminatedImaging).
It’s not my usual watermark, but it is my photo!
This was taken in July on a short outing to Lost Lake with the boys and my Dad. We took the long way in up over Lolo Pass to get a little NW dirt on his Arizona Jeep.
A nice afternoon, but unfortunately we didn’t get to spend much time at the lake. On the list for a weekend stay next summer, those boats look pretty fun!
Back to Yellowstone tomorrow, hopefully...
Wallalute Falls From Inspiration Point. Cloud Cap Road. Mt. Hood National Forest. Oregon. September 30, 2012.
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Inspiration Point. Cloud Cap Road. Mt. Hood National Forest. Oregon. September 30, 2012.
Found this spot while playing around with Google Earth and decided to drive up and check it out. This is a very nice spot, with decent views and nice meadows to wander through. There is at least one trail wandering through the parks woodsy “Natural Area,” but I didn’t have time to check it out today. I guess that forces me to plan a return trip. Shucks.
This post is, what Wikipedia would call, a stub. I’ll expand it later.
Clatsop Butte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Clatsop Butte is an upland butte lying directly south of Powell Butte in southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. Clatsop Butte City Park, which occupies part of the butte, is at coordinates 45.47456°N 122.50676°WCoordinates: 45.47456°N 122.50676°W at an elevation of 571 feet (174 m).[1] Johnson Creek, Southeast Foster Road, and the Springwater Corridor Trail pass between Powell Butte and Clatsop Butte near Southeast 152nd Avenue.[2]
The City of Portland acquired about 16 acres (6.5 ha) of land on the butte for a park and natural area in 2000.[3] Other land acquisitions increased the park's size to 102 acres (0.41 km2) by 2007 but led to controversy about public expenditures. A 16-member oversight committee was to review the purchases in 2008 to decide whether the money had been wisely spent.[4] As of 2008, Metro the regional government in the Oregon part of the Portland metropolitan area, included 49 acres (20 ha) of the acreage on its list of protected natural areas.
The natural area, comprising densely forested hillsides and creek frontage, supports wildlife including deer, foxes, coyotes, Northern Flickers, Pileated Woodpeckers and other local and migratory birds.[5]
Clatsop Butte is one of several dozen volcanic vents or domes that make up the Boring Lava Field, dating to the Pleistocene. The rock is Springwater Formation basalt. The soil on the Butte consists of windblown silt deposits from the catastrophic Missoula Floods. (15)
The high point at the southern end of the open area of Clatsop Butte has dramatic views in all directions. Looking east is an iconic, virtually unobstructed view of snowcapped Mt. Hood. To the south, Mt. Jefferson’s summit is visible on clear winter days. Larch Mountain and the western end of the Columbia Gorge can be seen in the northern foreground, with Silver Star Mountain, Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens appearing on the horizon. The towers of downtown Portland and Forest Park’s long ridgeline are seen to the west, with other high places such as Mt. Scott, Mt. Tabor and Willamette National Cemetery in the western foreground. Views from the park are outstanding and will be a significant draw for local as well as regional users. View destinations such as the Clatsop Butte Park are highly desirable and should create an incentive great enough to draw users from the Springwater Corridor and from Powell Butte. (22)
The park property was purchased by PP&R from a private developer in 2000. It encompasses several tax lots and several vacated street rights of way. Clatsop Butte Natural Area encompasses three tax lots, all owned by Metro but managed by PP&R. The open space tract to the north of the property is owned by Multnomah County.
There are three neighborhood Homeowners’ Associations surrounding the site, all of which control private tracts of open space: Emerald View to the east (including a long sliver of land that separates two parcels of the natural area), Lexington Hills to the south and McGregor Heights to the north and west. (25)Two large mounds have been created on this site, from topsoil bulldozed off the property in preparation for development. Standing atop one of the mounds offers a unique viewpoint over treetops and rooftops. These mounds could be removed and their topsoil could be redistributed on the site. One of these mounds could be reshaped or retained near the highest part of the site as a new artificial hill, shaped to offer an overlook of surrounding natural features. (35)
TLC Home "Lesser Known City Parks: Portland":
Not far from Powell Butte Natural Park— one of Portland's larger parks— Clatsop Butte Park is hidden away in the Pleasant Valley area of southeast Portland. Don't be fooled by the spare hillside when you pull up; walk down the hill to get a small trailhead and sign. It's removed from the road and nearby development, and a good…
Buttes get security: The neighbors' eyes | OregonLive.com (2008):
Clatsop Buttes Natural Area is made up of five adjoining parcels at the edge of the city limits -- including a 43-acre grassy meadow called Clatsop Butte Park with spectacular views of Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and downtown Portland --and an adjoining 49-acre sloping, forested area popular with hikers and equestrians.
Additional wooded parcels and open spaces have been cobbled together in recent months by city and Metro officials to form the 150-acre natural protected area crucial to the environmental health of the Johnson Creek Watershed.
Binford Reservoir. Gresham, Oregon. February 12, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 24, 2012.
Friday’s picture was posted elsewhere, just not here…
Mt. Hood from Sherrard Point, Larch Mountain, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. June 19, 2004. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 21, 2012.
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Mt. Hood from Bobs Mountain. Skamania Co., Oregon. September 13, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 18, 2012.
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Mt. Hood from Gresham, Oregon. April 17, 2012. Photo of the Day, April 18, 2012.
I am very close to putting my photo of the day on indefinite hiatus. As it is, it is unlikely that I will be able to continue with daily posting.
This last week, I have not had time to post and today it is only by neglecting other chores that I am finding time to post.
Part of the problem is gear. My computers are just too old and clunky to keep up. I started today’s post five hours ago. If this computer does not crash, I may finish now! Or maybe not even today at all…
Of course, I have not been spending the last five hours working on this post. I uploaded the photo to my computer, had to restart, and then I had to take care of some family issues. I edited the photo, had to restart, and then I had to take care of some family issues. Got the photo posted online, and you can guess the drill… Now, just getting started up again and waiting for Live Writer to start working, I’ve already been at this stage of the game for nearly an hour.
When this daily chore took fifteen minutes, it was possible to post every day. Right now it is taking more like 45 minutes to an hour every day and I just do not have that much time to spare. Many days, I do not have that much free time all in one sitting at all.
With two special needs boys who are both going through some issues (the older one is specifically having a hard time right now, the younger one has an Autism Spectrum Disorder, so life is always full of issues), and their mother staying with me who also has a lot of issues and special needs right now, I have very little free time for myself aside from my role as a caretaker.
Fighting with my computers is not really how I want to be spending my very limited free time right now.
On days when I can use my desktop, back in my office nook, this chore goes pretty quickly, but there are many days when I have little time to work back there. Usually I am stuck on my laptops.
Oh well. So much for my goal of 366 this year.
Hopefully things will settle down eventually, but right now that is not looking very likely. Until then, these posts may be a bit few and far between.
I almost called today’s photo the last photo of the day, but I do like posting these pictures. In fact, I have quite a few recent pictures queued up for the next several posts that I am looking forward to posting. However, I don’t have time to post every day, I have larger concerns in my life right now requiring my attention, so these will be posted from time to time when I have some free time that I am not spending working on larger batches of pictures, writing, or out taking even more pictures.
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Mt. Hood from Powel Butte, Portland, Oregon. May 17, 2009. Photo of the day, March 6, 2012.
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Not a lot from this month, busy with work, scouts, and coaching the boys soccer teams, as well as struggling with some health issues that were about to derail me for about six months.
But I did manage to get out and take a couple of photos…
Everything including the redundant family photos here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2331167217609.82871.1802638453&type=1&l=dc17eb4c3a
Thousand Acres. Photo of the Day, February 1, 2012. Sandy River Delta. Troutdale, Oregon. August 24, 2011.
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Photo of the Day, January 5, 2012. Mt. Hood from Portland, Oregon. January 3. 2012.
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Photo of the Day, December 18, 2011 Mt. Hood from Timberline Road. Oregon. September 30, 2010.
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Photo of the Day, November 29, 2011. Timberline, Mt. Hood. September 30, 2010.
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Photo of the Day, November 26, 2011. Taken October 6, 2010. Mt. Hood from Sherrard Point, Larch Mountain. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. Been trying to meet deadlines so I haven't been able to post for a few days.
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