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One for Ivi from this morning’s outing:

Not that I’m an alarmist, but click here for a July 20 piece from the New Yorker, called “The Really Big One”.

This afternoon Kim received a call from the local ODFW (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife) office, with a likely confirmation of her sighting, more questions and status on the investigation that she has triggered. This followed her earlier report to them of seeing, while in an outing with Charlie in the hills and forest trails above La Grande, a wolf cross their trail not thirty feet away at about 7 am. She gathered up Charlie and reversed direction without further incident. Kim says the animal appeared to be “looking for critters”.

Learn more about Oregon wolves at oregonwild.org (http://www.oregonwild.org/wildlife/wolves) and the wolf famously designated OR-7, aka “Journey” ( http://www.oregonwild.org/wildlife/wolves/the-journey-of-or7?gclid=CKmM5peM8cYCFdKFfgodLWILag)

You may remember Jack Ohman, formerly the cartoonist with The Oregonian (and now the editorial cartoonist at The Sacramento Bee.  Ohman, one of my favorite political cartoonists ever, famously made a series of cartoons featuring OR-7, including this one from a few years back:

Continuing to sift through a few hundred exposures, here are a few takes in monochrome:

 

 

In appalling conditions of harsh shadows, horrible backgrounds and hot sun, we attempt to document the annual Grande Ronde-A-View car show during the Crazy Days weekend.  This first installment covers mostly close details shot while dodging shadows.  And my friend Saira (see her site at 

http://lagrandemainstreet.org/) was on hand, of course.

As time allows, I will get more of today’s output online, if not here, on my car blog. 

P.S.  If you want to see what I shot last year, go to the last 15 rows (about 20 or so rows from the top) in the gallery at:  http://lagrandemainstreet.org/events/crazy-days/2014-crazy-days-photo-gallery/.

Mrs. Robin is now spending a lot of time on the nest.  Is the big event imminent?  

 

 

Then we grab some groceries and discover that (1) my new favorite microbrew name branding has to be “Swill“, and (2) the only available vehicle to us this morning can handle four bags of groceries in the jump seats plus one on the passenger’s lap or at her feet.

 

 

Today I discovered that quite a few of the followers of this blog (I didn’t know that I had more than about three!) primarily use smartphones for access, so it seems time to reprogram the visual design and layout for “responsive” operations (i.e., ability to automatically detect and optimize the display to suit whatever device is being used for viewing, with emphasis on mobile-friendliness — that means the use of the “hamburger” menu icon, for one thing).

In the course of doing this, I think I mucked up some old features a bit, and may have destroyed or injured the list of subscribers who get automatic notice whenever a news item is posted.  If you want to join that list, or are not sure whether you are still on it, just drop your email address into the signup form in the left column.  If you are getting notifications and do NOT want that, please pardon us and use the form to unsubscribe.

May take a little while to shake everything down; thanks for your patience.

In residence, not two feet from the kitchen window, through the glass  … 

 

Ivi drives Nik and Dad around town on various errands.  Not much else to report …

Today, once past a downtown walk to run some errands, is mostly about staying in the shade. And I did try to lose a neighbor’s Triumph motorcycle in the bushes.