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Landpride

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Just a guy who believes America is stronger when we respect diversity, including those I disagree with. Not easy, but that’s what we need to do. And I think we should leave a verdant Earth to later generations.

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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Breaks my heart. And they have targeted some of the few remaining ancient groves of truly awesome trees not in national parks. These are the core reserves of the old ecosystem and can help regenerate a natural adaptation to a human-driven world. Here is a photo on one of the targeted places.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Smoke in the Willamette Valley from distant fires. There have always been fires, but the frequency and expansiveness of Western fires is related to climate change. And the Trump/Heritage Foundation GOP does not give a damn. To them, nature is just a low-value commodity. Unforgivable.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Monsoon rains hit Las Cruces, New Mexico last night. The clarity of the morning is lovely.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
No wind here, so the picture is not very dramatic, but having recently read a book about Martin Luther King, Jr, I know progress is possible. Have a good 4th.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Pulling out tansy this morning. The yellow flowers are kind of pretty, but it’s a noxious invasive. Kind of unusual for me to be managing it before it goes to seed. Not often I am ahead on such chores. Weird.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Grant County, Oregon, home to around 7,300, just renewed funding their only library. With one of the oldest and most conservative populations in the state, this vote shows how Americans of all stripes value an informed public. Grant County is a beautiful and interesting place, worth a visit.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Evening is settling on our little farm after an unseasonably hot day. It’s an earth worth fighting for
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The flower seed farm outside of Silverton, Oregon helps one remember that our social complexity can still reward beauty. Takes hard work and creativity to prosper in that business. Glad they allow us to see their fields. Phone photos do not do this place justice. Hard to capture 5-10acre fields
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Went off-line for over two weeks. Came back to the same world where Trump absorbs all the media attention with his purposeful provocations and prevarications. But it was nice to return home and see this old oak. Persistence matters.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If you are ever in Los Pintos, New Mexico, be sure to have a drink in the old Buckthorn Saloon, and visit the museum.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Silver City, NM. Very cool.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A super-collaborative mural in Silver City, New Mexico. Inspired by Greta Thunberg.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Early morning in las Cruces, New Mexico. May you all find some joy today.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Trump admin is considering logging on some BLM lands that are extraordinarily beautiful and ecologically important. I personally love the “Valley of the Giants”, east of Salem and pictured here. To help to save these spots, act by March 23. Go to: act.biologicaldiversity.org/5E-gjTsTuE22...
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Good to have goats on a small Oregon farm …
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Nice Oregon sunset. Looking forward to when I can fly the American flag with pride in our government. I still put it up for demonstration days, Thanksgiving, Veteran’s Day and whenever true patriots stand up to despotic behavior.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Love these Mordor mornings
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Dawn in Oregon. Worth keeping free and verdant
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Morning full moon in Winter. This is when owls and hawks cross paths.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
And now the end of the day. So goes life on Pumpkin Hill. Enjoy your evening.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Another day … may you have a good one.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Time to get and do it again …
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Meanwhile, here in Benton County, Oregon, our “Democratic” commissioners voted 2-1 to allow Phoenix-based Republic Services to expand the second-largest dump in the state even more. Here is an undoctored pic, it has a worthy label.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Trump supports Tucker Carlson’s support for Nick Fuentes, and gets a very pleasant “thank you, Mr. President” from the neo-Nazi, who dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile Trump and the Right keep call universities anti-Semitic. George Orwell must be sitting next to Project 2025 on their desks.
The slow slide to the wet Oregon winter. Thank goodness for Autumn mushrooms and Winter Steelhead. Not That I ever catch any of the latter…
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ah, time to pull up this zucchini plant. It served us well, providing plenty of to our family, friends, chickens and goats. Time to drink more coffee …
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Beautiful Willamette Valley morning. May the Ukraine and Jamaica find their way to better times soon.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Country road moon, September 8, 2025
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Early September. Glad to see our replanted pollinator garden blooming. Have a pleasant day.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Distant thunder at dawn. Hope we all have a great day
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A cool morning here. The wisps of mist in the bottoms hint that Summer will not last.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Love this old oak. Probably was on our little farm before white settlers came to Oregon.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Time for some plants. This grove of quaking aspen does not really belong on the Willamette valley, but they are the best to look at when you lay in our hammock. We go native quite a bit elsewhere.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Sometimes you just having to look up towards the canopy. You might just see a grosbeak or oriole …. Not this morning, though.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s proper weather in Oregon, as long as we get dry soon enough. But not all people agree on weather…
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Very cool table setting with ceramic mushrooms.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Feeding time for GOP and major contributors. An invitation to dinner with Mr. Trump comes later. What could possibly go wrong?
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Crooked River, Oregon. A worthy place our Bureau of Land Management oversees as a Wild and Scenic River. Let’s hope it never gets sold out.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A friend took this picture as she flew over Greenland last week. Pure beauty. Let’s keep it that way.
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Landpride @mph-9.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Public lands: they are mine, they are yours, and they are future Americans’. We owe the future the recreational opportunities, the beauty, and the ongoing evolution of our natural ecosystems. Their stewardship will be one of our key legacies. Worth fighting for.
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