I wrote a new blog post on 35mmc! (Deschutes River Trail with an Olympus 35RD and Ektachrome 200)

Heads up! I've got a new blog post up on 35mmc. It's about using my 📸 Olympus 35 RD with some expired 🎞Kodak Ektachrome 200 slide film when Emee and I rode the Deschutes River Trail last month as part of our Gorge visit. Check out the blog post here. More photos from that adventure...

A Gorge Visit, Part 2: The Dalles, 23-28 March 2022

Wow. It's been two weeks since we returned from our The Dalles Trip. Better write this before I forget! Emee and I spent nearly a week in the Columbia Gorge again, this time concentrating around The Dalles, Oregon. This is the full transition to "The Dry Side", where grass, sagebrush, and occasional juniper dominates. It's...

A Central Oregon trip to Cove Palisades and Smith Rock, 23-26 August 2021

Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint (Crooked River Canyon), 25 August 2021. Pentax IQZoom 928/Cinestill BWXX Last month Emee, her two kids, and I drove to Central Oregon for a bit of end-of-summer relaxation. We rented a cabin at Cove Palisades State Park on the shore of Lake Billy Chinook. This reservoir is where the...

A Central Oregon Excursion

August is turning out to be a month of travel! First was the Oregon Coast Bike Tour. Now it's time for a trip to Central Oregon. Today Emee, her kids, and myself will be driving out to Cove Palisades State Park to spend three nights in a cabin. The cabin is on Lake Billy Chinook,...

A The Dalles Adventure, 24-27 March 2021

Camera: Minolta SR-T 101. Lens: MC Rokkor-X PG 50mm f/1.4 Film: Kodak Ektachrome 100 It had been almost three months since our trek to the Oregon Coast. Emee and I were getting cabin fever, needing to go somewhere. It's still COVID times and we don't want to go far, so we opt for places within...

Deschutes Rail-Trail/Camping Trip, 18-19 April 2014

I have wanted to ride the Deschutes Rail-Trail for a number of years. But it's always been just far enough away: 100 miles east of Portland, on the Deschutes where it meets the Columbia River. To do it as a bike ride would mean a four or five day tour. I thought about incorporating it...

Bizzy bizzy bizzy

Yes, it's been a quiet week n' a half on Ye Olde Blog. But my life has been anything but quiet. I've been so busy that I haven't had a good chance to blog. So here's a quick run-down on things that have happened since the last time I spoke with youse. I never did...