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What is interesting to me, got me thinking (oh oh she is thinking again ha), we are central Oregon BUT we are not central Oregon. We are not included in many central Oregon happenings. People think of Bend and Redmond when thinking of Central Oregon.

Oregon Sunset. Where this was taken some think is eastern Oregon, though it is still central Oregon.

Sunrise In Central Oregon. We usually head into Madras, than head to Prineville Oregon to go up in the Ochoco Mountains. This is what the sky looked like heading to Prineville Oregon Saturday.

Mountains, Sisters Oregon. This is also my new twitter background. : nature photo,oregon

Mushroom Fungus Of Oregon Video I have not made it any secrete that I have many photographs of mushroom or fungus of Oregon. From wikipedia, "A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. Mushrooms are not plants: they are a fungus. They eat organic matter, they do not photosynthesize like plants do." Mushrooms are unique. They grow most everywhere, if one just looks. Some can be eaten, though really I do not have this kind of experience to put such things in my mouth. Though many do!! This is some of my photographs of mushrooms I just happen to come across. I do not go looking for them, they just happen to be where I am. Be it on trees, growing on the ground, or like one species it was hanging within the trees! Like that species just fell from the sky! Now some have been eaten by wildlife, some have wildlife in the photo! Some mushrooms are very big. Bigger then Guy's hand! Some species are very little. Some species do not even look like it should be a living thing! Nature is pretty neat!

These birds were funny for as soon as they seen me paying attention to them they took of flying! We were not sure what these birds were and had to do some research. These were on the Crooked River here in Central Oregon. Nearest town was Post Oregon.

Central Oregon Crawdad. I love seeing wildlife in our waters, means our waters here in Oregon are healthy. Found this and other crawdad's in the South Fork of the Crooked River. I left them be to live and produce more crawdads.

These are a couple of wild sandhill cranes seen in Oregon. These are protected in Oregon.

Oregon Western Meadowlark , I was tickled to finally get this meadowlark sitting still long enough for a photograph to be tak.....

The Pacific Tree Frog is one of the most common frogs in Oregon. It is said if you hear frogs in the movies, you may just be hearing the Pacific Tree Frog! They can get VERY loud!!

I was watching this Oregon Junko and noticed a seed nearby, glad he did too!

The lake (Lake Billy Chinook Oregon), was pretty choppy Saturday evening when we were heading home.

The Turkey Vulture is not seen in Oregon all year around. There are five sub species of the Turkey Vulture. Our Turkey Vulture I believe is the Western Turkey Vulture, this sub species I have read is even broke down even further.

Never photographing these before. I was quite happy to find these high up in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon. We found a area of wildflowers blooming and stopping to photograph all the wildflowers in that spot, then thought we should head up to the higher elevation and did so on a narrow dirt road until we came to melting snow. This is where these were blooming along with some other wildflowers. Noticing a lot of elk and it looked like the horses use the area as a resting place. Wild horses in the Ochoco Mountains is a common thing. Such impressive flowers!

Nature is a wondrous thing. At times doing things that frankly, amazes us! The selenelion effect made these photographs come out rather neat looking, only with some cropping done. This selenelion effect is when both the eclipsed moon and the sun can be seen at the same time. Of course I get what I am given and these photographs are what I got. A well known fact is, I dont do night time photography. It was so cold Saturday morning here in Jefferson County Oregon!! Without much more talking, here are my photographs from the Lunar Eclipse here in Central Oregon.

This species of wildflowers were spotting the landscape here in Central Oregon.

Canyon Stream. Black Canyon Wilderness, Oregon. We found ourselves in the black canyon wilderness, nearest town is Dayville Oregon.

Clear water here in Oregon, one can even see the fish swim!

Lake Billy Chinook Oregon. These photographs were taken back in February of this year. I call this "the canyon". It is actually a lake. Read more at my blog.

This is from a local writer who just happens to still be in high school. He has been writing now for years and just this year has gotten the confidence to go public.This is his poem, with my central Oregon sunset photograph.