Wonderful Weather for Ducks

Welcome to Oregon! This is what we live in nine months out of the year...

Having 20-30 mph winds has transferred most of our fall color from the trees to the ground. The bushes are trying but the little leaves just can't hang on.

Even the seagulls are walking.

Or hanging out at the dock of the Port of Alsea, hoping for handouts, or easy pickings from the crabbers.


But the crabbers are fighting back and defending their hard-caught payload. This guy was hitting the water, the boat, the deck - whatever - just to keep the gulls off his catch.

It was a dreary day. Rain, wind and fog.

One thing I DO like about winter is the contrast of the evergreens in the fog. I never tire of watching the peek-boo layering of the forest. It makes me want to paint.

And the ghostly appearance of the seabirds out across the bay. Sailing in from the ocean, cutting their way through the fog... coming into a safe harbor.

So should we all.