Here’s a short vid of the night view from my back veranda across Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley. My banner image on my bio/profile is the daylight view. #PNW #Oregon #SouthernOregon #NightShot #NightTime

Beautiful afternoon in Southern Oregon’s #RogueValley today. But it is February and it really shouldn’t look like this or be over 60 degrees. For #SouthernOregon this is the winter that wasn’t, and that is concerning. I’m really worried about what summer fire season will bring with our rainfall totals and snow pack well below normal. #Oregon #Winter #Climate

Late Quaternary Variations in the Level of Paleo-Lake Malheur, Eastern Oregon
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https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.1998.2005 <-- shared paper
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https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/pleistocene-pluvial-lakes/ <-- shared technical article, “Pleistocene Pluvial Lakes” [OR]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_Lake <-- shared Wikipedia page
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It’s finally raining in the #PNW. My region of #SouthernOregon has been experiencing the ‘winter that wasn’t’ for months. Above average temps, and NO moisture other than morning fog. I mean, we’re known for our rain - and until now, it just hasn’t been falling. Our snow pack is miserably way below average. Mt. Ashland, our local ski resort has not been able to open at all this season. I fear for the inevitable upcoming summer fire season. Everything is going to be so dry, and our summer winds will make matters worse. My family has been reducing fuels on our 8 acre patch, creating defensible spaces, for a while now, but there’s still much more to go. #Oregon #WildFires #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #environment

Some of the wildlife we routinely have on our back veranda… #Oregon #PNW #SouthernOregon #Wildlife #RuralLife #CountryLiving

Late Fall fog has descended on the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon. Days of valley fog, blanketing everything in wet, white mist. We can barely see our neighbors, let alone the valley floor. Our usually expansive view has been reduced to about 50 feet of visibility. Heat’s on, music is turned up, and we’re playing with the cats. #PNW #Oregon #CountryLife #SouthernOregon

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I start my Sunday mornings with the #NPR show ‘Sunday Baroque’ on our #ClassicalMusic station, then at noon… the ‘American Music’ show comes on and I bail to our other NPR service: Rhythm & News for the Sunday Jazz program. I do that because (possibly unpopular opinion follows) American classical music is a joke, a cross between movie scores and circus marches. Oh I know… what about Copeland, Ives, Bernstein and Glass? Don’t really like any of them TBH. But I do love the Baroque period. We’re lucky where I live in #SouthernOregon as we have a local NPR station at SOSU with 3 services. Jefferson Public Radio covers the largest geographic service area of any nat’l NPR station, extending a couple hundred miles in each direction. You too can listen to a live stream at http://ijpr.org.

View looking south across Southern Oregon’s #RogueValley this Autumn afternoon. A real change from recent foggy days. Bright, sunny and brisk. Robins are feasting on our Madrone tree berries and making a pleasant racket… #Oregon #PNW #SouthernOregon #CountryLife