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Dec. 21st, 2011 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lupagreenwolfSince I can't make a holiday card for everyone, I thought I would share them virtually here. These are all done in colored pencil on poster board, using photos for reference (but not tracing). Please be kind; I am not a trained artist when it comes to traditional arts!
I see beargrass frequently on one of my very favorite hikes on the east side of Mount Hood; indigenous people traditionally used it to make baskets. And Douglas fir is all over the place; because it grows quickly, logging companies usually replant clearcuts with it and it's taken over a lot of forest areas.
Ferns are pretty well ubiquitous here; I'm especially fond of the wide, branching leaves of bracken. And my first encounter with skunk cabbage was when I hiked around Mirror lake on the south side of Mt. Hood a few years ago.
Oregon grape is a common sight in the Columbia River Gorge and around Mt. Hood, as well as in urban Portland gardens as a decorative shrub. I haven't seen a cougar in person yet, but I have found tracks while hiking.
Every time I see elk in person, it seems to have something to do with them trying to run me over. I think that may be what the ELK signs are for. And my first Oregon coyote sighting was actually on Powell Butte before they started the water reservoir construction.
Dark-eyed juncos are a common companion when I'm out hiking, especially around Mt. Hood, and I see mergansers on Upper twin lake every time I go, as well as in other places. I even saw a pair on Johnson Creek when I still lived down in Milwaukie.
First, how could I do a review of Pacific Northwest critters without a mention of the banana slug? Or for that matter, the ravens that quork throughout the Gorge?
These are two of my favorite birds! Scrub jays mostly hang around my home in urban Portland, while I see Steller's jays when I'm out in the Gorge.
I see beargrass frequently on one of my very favorite hikes on the east side of Mount Hood; indigenous people traditionally used it to make baskets. And Douglas fir is all over the place; because it grows quickly, logging companies usually replant clearcuts with it and it's taken over a lot of forest areas.
Ferns are pretty well ubiquitous here; I'm especially fond of the wide, branching leaves of bracken. And my first encounter with skunk cabbage was when I hiked around Mirror lake on the south side of Mt. Hood a few years ago.
Oregon grape is a common sight in the Columbia River Gorge and around Mt. Hood, as well as in urban Portland gardens as a decorative shrub. I haven't seen a cougar in person yet, but I have found tracks while hiking.
Every time I see elk in person, it seems to have something to do with them trying to run me over. I think that may be what the ELK signs are for. And my first Oregon coyote sighting was actually on Powell Butte before they started the water reservoir construction.
Dark-eyed juncos are a common companion when I'm out hiking, especially around Mt. Hood, and I see mergansers on Upper twin lake every time I go, as well as in other places. I even saw a pair on Johnson Creek when I still lived down in Milwaukie.
First, how could I do a review of Pacific Northwest critters without a mention of the banana slug? Or for that matter, the ravens that quork throughout the Gorge?
These are two of my favorite birds! Scrub jays mostly hang around my home in urban Portland, while I see Steller's jays when I'm out in the Gorge.
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