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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅
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Earth Lover. Geology ⛏️, cartography🗺️, earth history, coastal processes 🌊 , sedimentation, volcanism🌋 , climate 🌎, soils…Oh, and bonsai🪴 and bad poetry and bad poetry about rocks 🪨

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And here’s why we never see them from the road…they are often vegetated and lower lying…though some are better developed and obvious.

Is it just a strange coincidence that the name of the road where these “Biscuit Scablands” features are located is called “Bakeoven Road”?
View along Bakeoven Road off Hwy 218 in Central Oregon showing the landscape from car level….of the “Biscuit Scablands”. Patterned ground colloquially known as the “Biscuit Scablands” along Bakeoven Road.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Mounds visible from Google Maps aerial photography originating from freeze thaw cycles during the Pleistocene…now relics of a climate long passed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Not sure which is crazier…this loop or the one below Shaniko…but if you have a few hours, they can both be done in the same day.
Google Maps view of section of OR Hwy 218 south of Shaniko Oregon…and street view showing loops on loops as the road dives down into the dry canyon. Note also patterned ground to west of roadway. Not sure what that is…but now I will be finding out.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Meanwhile…Camelia don’t bow to the calendar.

#MakeBetterChoices
Camelia in full bloom in November. White flower with pink borders and bright yellow pistils. Closeup of Camelias in fall bloom.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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It’s happening…it’s really (finally) happening!

Better late than never.

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
Showy Japanese Maple in all its fall glory…sitting in a moss covered training pot on a patio table with chairs. Note the camellia (upper left) that is a bit confused by this fall…and putting on some pink blooms.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Just Sayin…
Let’s go Dodgers!
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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TZING!!

Bullet Dodged.
One giant step for man…
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Me too. Lately I have been discovering textbooks owned by my old professors and colleagues in book shops across the PNW. I don’t know why, but I can never let them just be there…they (the profs) meant so much to me that I can’t stand to see them languishing unsold.

⚒️📚🌎🪨⏳🌊🌋⏳
Tow old geology texts…Origin and Development of Craters owned by John Elliott Allen and Beach and Nearshore Sedimentation owned by Paul Komar….lying atop a wood desk.
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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A warm winter’s eve
Along a calm Pacific shore
Spruce enveloped in moss
Protect their sap-filled core

Memories of the day
Still fill the heart with fondness
For a world warm and hospitable
With nary a hint of violence

#BadPoetry #AnthropoScenes
#Poetry 📚✍️
The setting sun provides a warm glow upon a spruce tree covered in moss. Through the barren limbs the coastal hills and vegetation can be seen…and a calm ocean in the distance.
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Place has come a long way from when my dad was there…He doesn’t understand how far astray policing has gone.

No more “Officer Friendly”…but maybe it has something to do with the ever increasing danger or the job.
1972 Riverside Police Newsletter Memorializing the loss of two officers shot by a sniper
October 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Some recent additions to the library of the obscure…

An even older version (than I had) of Lyell and one of the early USGS reports to the Director (JW Powell!).

Cheaply bought due to condition, and because the small out of the way bookstore has low turnover on stuff like this.

⚒️🧪🌋⏳❄️🪨📚
Old leather bound geology books: Lyell’s Elements of Geology (1855) and a Report to the Director of the USGS circa 1890…sitting on the cushioned and nattily upholstered arm of an old man chair.
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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There’s a fine line between participation and mockery.

I am on the frontlines of that battle.
Pinus Contorta bonsai in a terra cotta pot n a patio table. Foliage has been thinned a bit to remove older/larger needles.
September 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Last post of the day, from #WarRavagedPortland

Things got pretty dicey today, after the drones were launched. Not sure their capabilities or intent…even means of launch looks suspect. Hoping to make it to morning.

#CityUnderSeige
#TheRavagery
#BattleOfPortlandia
#NeverForget
#September29
Not sure which side of the conflict this #WarRavager is on…as he launches drones that seem to have minimal payload. Photo is of a street performance wherein the entertainer attempts to keep discs spinning atop long sticks.
September 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Coming to you live from #WarRavagedPortland

Things continue to escalate…

Scene at Pioneer Square is truly #Barbaric

#CityUnderSeige
#TheRavagery
#BattleOfPortlandia
#WarRavagedPortland
#NeverForget
#September29
Savage invader seen at Pioneer Square…One of apparently at least 99 of them… brandishing tools of #WarRavage
September 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Now things are really starting to escalate…

Elected leaders brave The Ravagery to warn Portlanders that help is on the way. Here, Mayor Keith begs Trump to send exactly ZERO troops to our #CityUnderSeige

#BattleOfPortlandia
#WarRavagedPortland
#NeverForget
#September29
#WaterFrontLine
Elected leaders brave The Ravagery to warn Portlanders that help is on the way Mayor Keith Wilson, Tina Kotek and other city leaders address a crowd of concerned citizens in Portland’s Waterfront Park, now the frontline in the war against squandered resources, disinformation and unnecessary politically induced chaos.
September 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Who missed this day in #Geology 101?

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The Union Pacific advertisement for travel to Yellowstone depicts the “source” of the geysers…Picture is a color drawing of a team of subterranean bears loading coal into a boiler plumbed to the geyser vents above. A bear cub has climbed a tree barren of foliage, rooted in earth layers sloping away from the geyser vent…below, bears operating machinery and a boiler to stoke the fire. A clock and a Union Pacific calendar is present on the wall of the cave.
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Test. A picture has been posted.

This concludes the test.
One of the old steam locomotives on the Southern Pacific Lines…a Cab-Forward with a bit of a valve problem…making more diesel smoke than steam. Black and silver locomotive #4271 originally designed for mountain and tunnel/snow shed use now in passenger train service new the end of the steam era. Train on tracks with hazy blue sky above marked by black smoke, a weedy set of passing tracks in the foreground.
September 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Potted up this very proto-bonsai for a friend. Perfect starter tree…really only requires morning sun/afternoon shade, water, fertilizer once a year and a bit of trimming from time to time. Bones are there…could be a good little tree in 5 more years.

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices #HappyLittleTrees
Small Japanese maple in a starter pot, in a mix of native scoria (vesicular lava) pumice and Jory Series Clay from the Willamette Valley. Photo is a tree in a clay pot with other “bonsai in training” in the background.
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Feature or flaw?

Once a throw away tree, decided to pot, chop a few major limbs and see what develops.

Spruce are quite brittle once limbs >1/4”, so setting some limbs will need to take place soon.

Moving crown to accentuate or hide the two previous cuts?

Thoughts??

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
Small Alberta Spruce in bright blue (cheap) bonsai pot. Strong trunk for a small tree, due to trunk chop several years ago. Small potted tree on a patio table with trees, fence and house in background. Closeup of trunk…Two large limbs taken from tree have sapped and scarred over. Lower one looks “natural” for a cut and not really natural for actual nature…upper one looks like a natural break, but is not very attractive. Uppermost limb (background) will be stripped downward to resemble a broad ken branch.
September 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Feature or flaw?

Once a throw away tree, decided to pot, chop a few major limbs and see what develops.

Spruce are quite brittle once limbs >1/4”, so setting some limbs will need to take place soon.

Moving crown to accentuate or hide the two previous cuts?

Thoughts?

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
Small Alberta Spruce in bright blue (cheap) bonsai pot. Strong trunk for a small tree, due to trunk chop several years ago. Two large limbs taken from tree have sapped and scarred over. Lower one looks “natural” for a cut and not really natural for actual nature…upper one looks like a natural break, but is not very attractive.
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Short Birds Nest Spruce with massive canopy. These trees (ground cover habit) seem like an easy species to cultivate as bonsai…due to their easy back budding and almost natural/inevitable pad formation. Getting them to spread vertically is a bit of a challenge…

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
Overhead canopy shot of a Birds Nest Spruce showing amazing branching structure. Side view of Bird’s Nest Spruce on a messy patio table. Closeup of trunk structure on Birds Nest Spruce with massive tapered trunk relative to tree size.
September 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Hinoki Cypress split trunk. This tree must be nearing 10 years in my care…after 10ish years in the back pasture of a local nursery.

Been trying to bring canopy down/and compact…but they want to be leggy and don’t back bud! The winter storm took out some minor limbs.

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
A Hinoki Cypress in a clay development pot on a patio table. The tree has a split trunk (Hinoki often do this) and the right trunk has been sheared off…representing the stress of the wilds. Although the bulk of the shearing was intentional, some was caused by the 2024 winter snow storm and fir tree attack. Closeup of the twisted and sheared trunk and limbs. Second view of sheared trunks and limbs. (These are the intentionally sheared bits).
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A bendy Pinus Contorta in a free from #Bonsai pot from a local potter. This tree was a stowaway in a field collected hemlock I purchased at a local garden shop years ago. A nice bonus!

About 6-7 years old now.

#MakeGoodChoices
Pinus Contorta in an “organic” bonsai pot Possible new “front” with limb to be bent next season and wired in place. Alternative “front” for future bonsai, after major limb is bent and wired.
September 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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When trees turn…and take on their “little brothers.” A carnage of flying/fallen fir atop 30-40 proto-bonsai…many stripped of their limbs. Snow and ice fill the interstices between boughs and broken limbs.
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Conifer row…

A bunch of swarthy pines and hemlocks and other stuff in the “hot zone” of the garage…newly rebuilt after last year’s devastating storm cleaved it with a falling fir.

This is the location where all my bonsai were to shelter from the icy winds!

#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
Assorted pines (mostly Contorta) against the garage wall on a bed of gravel…construction materials still present from rebuild. Large cobbles and a steel potbelly stove . Cypress, hemlock and more pines.
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM