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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · Jun 2

On May 6, three of us in Eugene Oregon visited a friend of ours in Pleasant Hill, a short distance away. We had a great visit. This is the view from our friend's home.

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 26

April 25, Oakway Center, Eugene Oregon. I had lunch at Pastini with friends. It was a social week. Then I stopped off at the Broadway Wine Merchants, a really good wine store. And what did I take a photo of, the bushes next to my car!

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 26

The impressive building on the left is the home of The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts. I do not know the history of the building. I should look it up. 2 of 2

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 26

April 24, downtown Eugene Oregon. Walking back to my car after having coffee with a great Meetup group. The camera does weird things with the straight lines of buildings, depending on the angle, so I focused on the tree. 1 of 2

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 26

April 13, Eugene Oregon, from my living room picture window. This is the kind of sunset where people say - what a sunset! It was an impressive sunset.

amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 25

March 16, Eugene Oregon, McMenamins North Bank. I had lunch here with friends. The food was good, the views of the Willamette River were beautiful and it was great to see friends. It was too cool for most of us to sit outside.Two photos were shot outside and one inside.

amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 24

I rarely edit photos anymore, and I do not always change the settings. I let my phone do what it does. I have a Google Pixel 7, but a lot of smartphones let you easily take good photos now, from my non expert photo taking perspective. 2 of 2

amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 24

February 8, Eugene Oregon. Entrance to my building. A night shot with some external light sources. Rhododendron bushes, affectionately called Rhodies, do well here. 1 of 2

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 23

January 28, Eugene Oregon. View from my fourth floor living room window, facing west. I love the winter skies here.

amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 23

January 27, Eugene Oregon. Amazon Creek, near where I live. "Gloomy" would be a good description, but it's also beautiful. There are days when winter looks like this.

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 23

There was a lot of damage. I was lucky that I did not lose power, but a lot of people did. Ice storms are like that.

amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 23

The views are from my fourth floor window, the main entrance to my building, and a view from another entrance to my building. I had the luxury of not having to go anywhere; I could wait until the ice melted.

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · May 23

I stopped posting, not for any good reason, but I decided to start again. These are views of the ice storm we had in mid January, Eugene Oregon. This is not snow. There was an ice storm, a rare but not unheard of occurrence.

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · Jan 8

I have the luxury of having a life where I do not have to go out on Saturday or Sunday. Aside from hating the cold, I do not want to risk falling. This is not unheard of, but it is unusual to have the lows be as low as the 20s F, and the highs be as low as 32F. Our power is usually stable.

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amarez Mary @amarez.bsky.social · Jan 8

Here in Eugene Oregon, if the weather continues as predicted, on Saturday and Sunday we will have the abomination of the weather not going above freezing during the day, and what looks like sleet on Saturday, and colder temperatures at night than we usually get