Photos by photodegraff: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Thanks, Steve - Really glad you like this shot. It was lots of fun to shoot it that night :-)

~ BdM

Thanks for your visit and comment, Michael. Greetings from Oregon, USA:)

Many thanks Celia i was happy to get Clara's help which one to enter she chose this one. steve

Je vois que vous connaissez également ce lieu! J'adore cet endroit. D'autres photos prises au printemps sont à venir. Amicalement, Christian

Many thanks, Fiala and Andrea. I felt lucky to notice and photograph this. Marilyn

Very expressive, very nice! I like it very much. Good luck on NPC. My greetings. GGR.

The view from Marys Peak, the highest point in Oregon's Coast Range. Overlooking the Willamette Valley, visible on the horizon are five Cascade Peaks (from left): Mt Hood, Mt Jefferson, and the Three Sisters. What is not apparent in the panorama is illustrated in the small inset image. On the day I visited there were literally hundreds if not thousands of Western Meadow Fritillery Butterflies feeding on the wildflowers that carpeted the peak. Slightly more than one inch across their wings, there were so many, you had to watch where you placed your feet on the trail to keep from crushing one or more that were resting on the dirt path.

The Willamette Valley produces most of the grass seed sold in North America. Here, the harvest has just begun.

Thank you Tom - your comments are always valuable and meaningful for me. I like swirly water :-)

Short Bridge, crossing the Santiam River, is one of over 4 dozen covered bridges in Oregon today.