From the “war zone” www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...

While thousands of NPS employees have been furloughed and essentials are working for free, the WH has found “fees” to reinstall a statue of a Confederate General on park land.

Happy Halloween Week! From 40 years ago!!!

I hate when this happens …

Bold words from a cracker.

Somewhere in Oregon

Promises made, … From the NTTimes

He thinks he is leaving his mark, well I guess technically a scar is a mark.

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Fun Guy at the No Kings Rally (10/18/25)

A Sample of the Carnage at the No Kings Rally in Yachats, Oregon.. (10/18/25)

Fall Color: Grape Leaf Turning

Sugar Cone a la Mode

Northwest Tower: Looking South

View from the Northwest Tower.

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This morning’s moonset.

Tine Time

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

An evening by the water. A morning in prayer. These are moments to cherish — and yet in America, nowhere is safe from gunfire. Not restaurants, not churches, not schools, not our streets. That is not freedom.

Local Viewpoint www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

The Reason for Troops in Portland

An Irish lad works the crowd (for licks of ice cream) outside of Lynch’s Castle, Galway.

Morning Walk

Only the best… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

You know who was/is Antifa… The Greatest Generation.

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Her jaw is clenched, and if her skin isn’t crawling, I’ll eat my mail in ballot.

Gone, but not forgotten

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Dragon Scales

Ajar

Patterns: Looking Into Arthur’s Bar, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.

To celebrate the “nobody has seen job numbers like these before” job numbers (22,000 last month), ICE raids a manufacturing plant in Georgia and scoops up 475 workers. (News story in the New York Times… you really should pick a news paper and support by subscribing)

The Sound Of Thunder Finn at a year and a couple of weeks. For those who are interested, it was amazingly simple to train Finn to climb on the furniture. (Follow me for more tips on training an English Field Cocker.)

One of those sunsets…

Liminal Space

Ready for Halloween