Oregon Art Beat; #1023; Sue Allen

And it will hold this number, even if you turn the camera off, even if you take the battery off, there's a little internal battery in here, it will hold on to you. And where the snow is in the edge there. Yeah. All right. You're just heading out for your hike, you can't go ahead. Okay, yeah. I'll look at the mountain. Yeah, there you go. Good action. Right in the puddle, huh? Perfect. Okay. I'm going to be comfortable going this. Yes. So what you go ahead and get started.

All right. Probably better than what those people did. Okay, show me again. You see that, those three larger rocks there, just to the left, there's a little trail coming through. That's, I think, the easiest walk over. But these are the kinds of conversations we have when I go out with people, too. Yeah. You know, we talk about the best way to go when we have a

choice of where we want to go. It's a little squirrely right here. We'll take one step at a time. All right. Let's give it a shot. Yeah. Do you want to use the, uh, Stacey? Do you want to use it? I'll be able to fold it with this. Okay. The snow will probably be soft. Do you know how to walk and snow? Do you want to make a platform? Or you could just take my steps. We'll get flat in a minute. Yeah. All right. So, you want some?

Oh, pretty good. You see these three rocks here? We're going to go just a little left of it. And up where someone's already made a trail. So, usually, a trail is like that. It's been used more than once and maybe it has a, there's a rhyme and reason. Or not. So, Sue, we've been out here about three minutes and already it's feeling peaceful. And we're breathing hard. It's great, huh? It's fabulous. We're right in this little nook. And we're far enough away from the maddening crowd. We're the maddening crowd that we get that sense of solitude. And does that inform your, your artistry to get up to places like this? I am a loner at heart. And I love that solitude. And so, I enjoy having my friends with me too.

But it's a different experience when you're alone. Shall we keep going? Yeah, let me. You'll have to pardon my, of course I'm taking pictures. That's part of what I do. All right, Sue, we're rolling. Okay. Okay. A little challenging.

All right. Let's see how they did. Yeah. Flexible in the knees.

We're almost over the hump. I'm going to take a look over here, I think. Maybe Sue will get rid of her camera. Get rid of her litter if she picked up. I see some flocks and we're going to go look at it. Yeah, so I'll go and just figure out a little here. All right, go ahead and check it out. So what have you found

for us here? Blocks. Maybe longer foldier. We'll take some pictures. Look around, see if there's a better patch of it. Yeah. Yeah. I want my shadow in it. What is it again?

Show me where it is, which right here. Next to it, a little native looping. So you seem to have some knowledge of Alpine Botanica? I learned in the spring and summer and I forget them in the winter and fall and have to renew it. So sometimes I don't quite get them right, but I can look it up when I get home. I don't tend to carry a book with me. But part of this was to see the plants, see a few birds, as well as the mountain. Different viewpoints.

Part of it's just to get feel and peace. I love it up here. Oh, it's great. And the reason we came to look at this flock is sometimes they're at a certain elevation, and then you won't see that plant a little higher up or lower down. So you want to do it when you see it. Yeah, they probably don't last real long, yeah. No, some of them just come out right when the snow melts. But the flocks is one of my favorites. And it comes in lots of different colors. Some are a little older, some are fresher. And you can see though, it's a hard life here and even to have a little plant like these. I need little plants. I don't know what it's taking it for. Did you point to that again for me? Oh, yeah. Is it a looping? Yeah. I can't think of it's Latin at the moment.

And we'll see other things, some I know, some I don't know. But it is a pretty wonderful up here. So really, you could come to Mounthead a number of times and not really see the same mountain twice. Every time. Just different mountain. I think around Mounthead, 12 months told directions. So that's once a month in a different side of the mountain. So perhaps you could turn the clock a month and every year do instead of starting December North. So then January of Northside. And maybe you do something a little different than you did for February of the time before. And you'd see it different every time. More snow some years. Access. How you get in. Things have changed. Mother nature. White river being washed out. Changes how the trails go through.

Crossing. Stream crossings. Sometimes going up a little hill with sand all over it. If you want to be on the mountain, you've got to be a little goat sometimes. And this is why I started using poles. It gives you four legs instead of two besides your arms. I mean, it just without leaning over, you can try to get where you're going. Also helps you get up off the ground after you've leaned over to take a picture. But if you pack on and you're lifting a weight to do that. Okay, let's look a little for you. All right. Now do you want to head up? Sure. Yeah. I think that's fine. Let's, we could probably just be straight across here and

hit that little trail. Without going back down a little. I'm trying not to talk too much, right? Okay, once you go again for ways we will catch up with you. Just a little reminder. If I haven't heard you, I won't respond. I'm going to go up here. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Clark's not cracker, but

no guarantees. What would be a highlight? If we get visited by the Clark's not cracker, which is a alpine bird that is around up here and they often sit on a snag and sit and you can take some pictures of them or just watch them. It's a pretty nice bird. Would you do a mountain? Yeah, I'll show you like you're thinking about picking it up. All right. You have a very wide angle, don't you? Yeah. I don't necessarily worry about composition entirely because I can crop it at home. But I like to have nice compositions that I can take home and find something that I really like. That has to write foreground in it and things like that. So I take a lot of

pictures and then I can choose what works for me. Okay. Good one more. That's nice. And put the camera back. Good, thank you. You get down in the swales, you get a different kind of vegetation. So sometimes you see something new and different or if we're a little higher, we'll see something new and different. Or maybe a clump of rocks looks interesting. We'll just explore. It's really an exploration. Yeah.

I think this is the Timberline Trail. We're just crossing it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What

did you get there? In the snow, like the pikes and things like that make these little tunnels. And then when the snow melts, it looks like they've sort of made it above ground. But it's just what's left. Now what was there? No. It looks like it's solid but it's just probably slumped. What creature made it? I'm going to say a pica but it's some of the little rodent creatures that hang out on the mountain. Yeah. And you don't see them everywhere but actually if you start looking around, you'll see them everywhere. I think as the summer goes on, they probably disintegrate and blow off and then they're not that visible anymore. But we actually, it's a hot day today. Here we are at 6 ,000 feet and frying. Let you want to be protected a little bit. Well, I suspect me and her a

little further. I like it. See what we see. I'll see something unusual. Check it out. Oh, of the trees. I'm sorry, tell me again. It's not too often you see the really young trees that are just struggling to get established. One of the

pines. But there are a couple here and then the juniper. Would you point at that closet when it came for me? Thank you. This is what poles are for. That's the top environment to make a living in. Hey, it is. I was hoping we'd see some penstements but I think they're not quite ready yet. At this elevation. Though I see some from here. But it's over the snow over there. Straight across, right above the snow is some purple. Which may happen here or we see some yellow over here too. These are the things that excite me and make me want to go over there. So perhaps we shall. Oh.

We're treated. Penstement David Sonyi. Penstement David Sonyi. I could really get adventures here.

This plant is in its prime. Hmm. Oh, man. Penstement David Sonyi. Always forget the variety. You get to be 60 and you lose it maybe before 60. That

is glorious. It's a mountain plant that likes the mountain environment. This one's just coming on. You see you have little ones and big ones. Check out the next plant. This is a bigger plant of Mount Hood Pussy Paws. It's one of those plants they've changed a lot in name more than once and I haven't tracked it. So these are things you might say make a card out of? No. When I did my around -mount hood prints, I had like three little boxes in the end. And I wanted to see if I could get

like a bird and a plant. Maybe another view of something I saw on that trip. Like a little vignette. So actually this is in the July. I think it's in July print from two years ago. It's trip and the print. Yeah. A little version of it. So and then the overall view in the July print are of these. There are a couple different kinds of pensamen that we find out here. You can't put everything in unfortunately. So you have to decide what you're going to show and what fits into the whole scheme of things. It's a big mouth. Let's see this up here. This would make me walk to it. Okay. We have a couple things here. I'll just tell you. I think this is in the

buckwheat family. I can't remember which one it is. And this is one of our lupins, our dwarf lupins. So and then with the pensamen, it's nature's rock garden. And in a situation where you lean. I'm on the yellow ones now and saying point again for me to eat. One of the buckwheats. Ariagonum. Excellent. Pull that thing out. Now I'm going to get on the blue one. Hang on. Pull it out till I'm knowing it. And go ahead. Loop pine is something or other. Or lupin, a dwarf lupin. Great. Yeah. Now in a situation like this, I would probably take my pack off and spend some time. Well. Doing that? Yeah. Maybe have a drink of water. Here's a place to actually sit down. So now I'm going to have to be creative here. I don't think I'm totally

attached. And you know, I learn these plants and then I forget them. It's just a game. I can learn them. Oh. I'm going to head up when you're ready. Okay, I'm ready. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. It's nice to get this beautiful view with the plants right in front of the mountain. Yeah. A lot of botanists are belly picture takers or you're down on your belly taking your pictures. Would you do me a huge favor and just kind of walk through? There'll just be your feet, but it's okay.

Okay. Thank you. Been over here and there is over here. Somehow the weather, the sun, the snow melt, everything makes it a little different environment. It's not in bloom, but you can see all the green. I'm not a geologist. I don't get into what makes it do it. But just a slight change of orientation will make the plants do different things. And you know we're not going down this way. Yeah. I haven't called my hair. I never call my hair. You good?

Other than what happened, I'm not getting a poll. Well ask your bill if this mountain is special to her and if so what? Mount Hood is my Alpine mountain of choice. I live here and it's a really beautiful mountain. And I wish I had more time to come here more often, even though I live just in the foothills. I don't see it from where I live, but I can get to it very quickly. And from the forest withland to the Alpine meadow and even beyond, it's nothing more than I would rather be doing. That wasn't good English. We got the idea. I mean everybody comes here once or twice a year, but here in a position where you can come here a little more often and really see the many faces of it. I am in a position, but I don't take advantage. And that's why my around my hood trip program was

forced me once or twice a month. I had to get out, resolve a problem of where I was going to go and do it. For not just a one or two hours, but an entire day usually out on the trail. Either snowshoeing or hiking or cross -country skiing, sometimes alone. And sometimes I had some friends along and we had a great exploration out into Mount Hood in places I'd been and places I hadn't been before. And what do people say who have your calendar or see your calendar? They love it. And it's a very personal... I don't think you get anything with that many views of Mount Hood of it all in one place. So now that it's passed safe for 2007, I've really been forced to work on 2009 in a little different format, but with the same images. So I love to give the pleasure to others that I find here at Mount Hood and

pass it along. Perfect. I think we're done.