Painted Hills Redux

Some landscape abstracts from my trip earlier this week through Eastern Oregon's Painted Hills ...

You can see some shots from my 2015 visit (my first) here.

State route

Variations on Oregon from the windshield... SR 19, SR 30, and I-84...

  

Family portraits

Kevin is always even-keeled, great to have a beer with.  He's into model trains.
Favorite song: "Rhiannon", Fleetwood Mac

Alex is typically bewildered by life in general.
Favorite song: "Suzanne", Leonard Cohen

Leslie is a chatterbox,  always ready to tell or guffaw at a joke.
Favorite song: "White Punks on Dope", The Tubes

Taylor is easily outraged by news programs.
Favorite song: "We Don't Need No Fascist Groove Thang", Heaven 17 

 

Madison is depressed and lonely much of the time.
Favorite song: "Wild World", Cat Stevens

Casey is exasperated and fatigued with the whole damn thing.
Favorite song: "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Paul Anka cover version

Jamie is somewhat prudish and easily blushes.
Favorite song: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", Judy Garland

Jess: is a bit of a worrywort, if not an alarmist.
Favorite song: "Help", The Beatles

Jordan is a congenital doubter and snark specialist.
Favorite song: "I'm Not Angry", Elvis Costello

Sidney is very persnickety about food, among other things.
Favorite song: "Das Lied von der Erde", Gustav Mahler

Dale is a practical joker and tends to get into trouble.
Favorite song: "Hootenanny", The Replacements

Chris specializes in "dad jokes" and droll asides.
Favorite song: "It's National Shite Day",  Half Man Half Biscuit

 

Marion has memorized every song in the Beatles songbook and isn't afraid to demonstrate.
Favorite song: "Revolution #9", The Beatles

Tracy is a ponderer and philosopher, and writes in blank verse.
Favorite song: "I am a Rock", Simon & Garfunkel

Garden galaxies

Spent Mother's Day at the rhododendron species botanical garden in Federal Way WA. Seeing these stelliform flowers, my associative monkey-mind kicked in.

Milky Way photo by Joseph Cowdell

Pleiades Star Cluster photo by Tony Hallas/Science Faction/Corbis

The following one, in case you're wondering, is a debris-filled spiderweb.

Hubble photo via Indian Express

Still life with death

A morning wandering the aisles of Epic Antiques in Seattle, hunting the hunted.