#black butte

[bobcronkphotography]

Mt. Washington

Black Butte Ranch, Oregon

Bob Cronk

[thorsenmark]

Capturing a Picturesque Setting of Mount Eddy from the Black Butte Trail by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While hiking along the Black Butte Trail, I took in this view looking southwest down a mountainside to a valley below with Interstate 5 going through. Beyond, more distant hills and mountains of the Trinity Mountains with Mount Eddy were visible. This area is in the Shasta–Trinity National Forest.

[postingcards]

(l-r) the snow-capped peaks of mt. washington, three fingered jack, mt. jefferson, and mt. hood as seen from three creek lake. several cinder cones and the extinct stratovolcano black butte can also be seen between the lake and the mountain range. rppc by clarence christian, ca. 1940s

[20th-century-railroading]

Never made it back by Greg Brown Via Flickr: On a marginal March day, an eastbound rolls by Mt. Shasta, a few miles past Black Butte siding. At the time, the dynamic brakeless ex-MoPac SDs were fairly common on the Shasta Route. I liked this angle, and vowed to go back when the skies were clear.

One of these days I'll get back there...

March 20, 1988

[caldrive]

Black Butte, Mt Shasta area (2022). Kinda impressive in its own right, Black Butte gets overshadowed by its big sister, Mt Shasta, lurking out of the frame off to the left… (don't be fooled by the perspective here: Black Butte is many miles off on the horizon, not just at the end of the country lane here :-)).

[deanschlichting]

Mt. Washington from Black Butte, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon USA

[walkingphotos]

Today's Walking Photos: “A” is for AAAAAAAAAY I’M BACK!!! Apparently. I don’t think I’m going to bog down this post with too much in the way of tedious medical details and maudlin self-pity. I’ll just say that on Wednesday, after a long two months of an intraocular gas bubble and scattered complications and worries, I saw the retina specialist for yet another post-surgical follow-up wherein he pronounced me in good shape (my left eye, that is) and cleared me for travel. Don’t know if I’d mentioned it before, but when you have a gas bubble in your eye you can’t fly or even drive anywhere above 2,000 feet in altitude because, y’know, exploding eyeballs and whatnot. So this was big and exciting news, particularly because it meant that I could accompany my wife to central Oregon (which route includes a 4,000-foot summit passage) instead of her going alone. And so here we are and here I walked today!

I have to admit to you that there was certainly a point during the two-plus months of this hiatus when I could have resumed walking, and I also could have  coaxed my struggling eye into taking pictures and editing them on the computer. But this retinal rollercoaster has been such an ordeal of uncertainty and what felt like cruel little twists and turns that honestly, I was unreasonably terrified of suffering a depth perception fail (which was a frequent thing throughout this time – it hardly seems real that I was wearing an eyepatch for a substantial period of time, but I was) and tripping and falling and knocking myself on the head and triggering another detachment. So really, for the last few weeks or so I’ve been playing it perhaps inordinately safe. But now, with the doctor’s report, and finding myself in this always picturesque location, the choice was clear: RESUME! And so now, some comments on the images…

1) This crudely-fashioned “A” does look a bit like something out of a shot-in-the-woods horror flick where unspeakable things happen to people who unfortunately know something about what someone did last summer or something along those lines…but I still like it.

2) The unfailingly graceful and soothingly rounded Black Butte. I can never come here and not shoot it.

3) It’s just a robin, but I love the way it’s nestled into this beautifully-textured rock. For a moment anyway. There was much flitting.

4) This is a suboptimal photo of a scrawny deer, but I wanted it known that I saw a deer on today’s sojourn.

5) I’m definitely happier with this photo of mom horse and baby horse than I am with Scrawny Deer Study.

6) Mt. Washington swims amid cloud cover while unimpressed horses graze.

Before I go, I want to thank @girl-like-substance, @sky-blue-pantaloons and @unoriginalurl77 for expressing well wishes on my hiatus post. Much appreciated.

I can’t promise I’ll walk every day while we’re here due to other activities going on, but I’m definitely back to walking and posting. Feels great, too.

[jmpphoto]

Black Butte by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Black Butte Gold Butte National Monument Nevada April 2021