The Daily Bucket–I ain't Superstitious, but …
About 15 years ago, my son and I dug out two back yard fish ponds with a back hoe, to my wife’s surprise. A backhoe. (not in my backyard.) This … Read More
Category: bethany
The Daily Bucket–Goose with a thousand names
The local internet buzzed. The local goose had tangled itself in a loose strand of fishing line, with a barbed lure tearing at her throat. The local goose was an … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Ducks flee flooded foliage.
The January rains struck parts of NW Oregon with near-biblical storms. Bethany Lake flooded to new heights. Two inches fell overnight and never let up. The Wood Duck Island vanished. … Read More
The Daily Bucket–The Creek ain't done Rising
By January Bethany Lake in NW Oregon, just west of Portland, gathers storm waters from hundreds of acres of avoided wetlands. Effluent also drains from the thousands of manicured yards and … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Monkeywrenching with Paper
Edward Abbey memorialized environmental resistance to mindless development in his tome The Monkey Wrench Gang. It essentially endorsed sabotage to thwart degrading of the natural world, for instance, putting sugar … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Forgive My Trespasses
For starters, this “No Trespassing” sign isn’t on private property. It’s on Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation Lands that are open to the public as the Rock Creek Greenway, west of Portland … Read More
The Daily Bucket– The Creek's Roaring and Billy's Watching
Hard rains just swept across NW Oregon and vicinity. The creeks climbed their banks. I watch Rock Creek, and its tributaries that flow through Bethany Lake, ten miles west of … Read More
The Daily Bucket–The West Side Gang moves in.
For 20 years, I’ve tracked the movements of herons and egrets where I’ve worked and walked. I’d been working at a golf course in Banks Oregon, 20 miles west of … Read More
The Daily Bucket: Saving the Redwoods #3; We Knocked off a Gas Station.
An Oregon developer of a proposed gas station next to a creek and wetlands has withdrawn his application. In short: Victory! Withdrawn App, how sweet the sound, Saving trees … … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Low Water Flushes Tall birds.
The skies have not yield a moment of rain for months. But I knew how to make it rain. I hung clothes outdoors on our new fancy clothesline. It’s passive … Read More
Save the Redwoods, Part II: When Billy Heron helped unite a community
It’s especially hard to organize folks these days. You can’t call a meeting. It’s tough to talk and listen with masks on. Yet suburban folks west of Portland Oregon are … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Save The Redwoods
I’m just an old race horse out to pasture, pawing the ground when the race track bugle sounds. I still read the local public notices about developments, reflecting back on … Read More
Forests to go the way of coral reefs, unable to keep pace in a warming world.
“We have to be aware that climate change and biodiversity loss are stress factors for ecosystems, for humans, for animals, and for the microbiome. Our research shows that if the … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Surprise!!
The inch-an-hour storms have driven the anglers away from my Neighborhood’s Bethany Lake. It’s full of hungry trout but the anglers flee the storms, heading home with a full creel … Read More
Multibillionaire David Geffen wishes us well while 'avoiding the virus' on his $400 million yacht
And I thought Ivanka Trump’s faux camping trip with her kids in her posh living room was the most tone-deaf thing I’d see during the coronavirus crisis. x Under the … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Ready, Steady GO!
The Tualatin Valley of Northwest Oregon forms a shallow bowl, about 50 miles in diameter, with 1000-2000 foot tall eroded volcanoes walling in the lowlands, separating the region from the … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Eagle Eyes
I walk from my house to Bethany Lake, west of Portland Oregon, on many days. The Lake is adjacent to a wide utility easement, a golf course, a park, and … Read More
The Daily Bucket–The Daily Eagle.
I often walk around Bethany Lake, 10 miles west of Portland Oregon. Swollen creeks pour into it from two directions, after the rains start. The Park Dept. stocks the lake with rainbow … Read More
LOL. NBC Reports Trump Called Pelosi Wanting to “work something out….” Twitter Laughs.
x Wow, @HeidiNBC reporting that Trump called Pelosi today and asked “if they could work something out on this whole whistleblower thing.†— Jamie O'Grady 🤔 (@JamieOGrady) September 24, 2019 … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Flooded!!
This week of dire weather forecasts for the Pacific Northwest saw a year’s worth of snow fall on Seattle in a few remarkable days. Yet the lower elevations of Washington County, … Read More
LOL: Philadelphia Flyers Mascot “Gritty” Doesn't Like Proud Boys, Who Can't Get a Uber Alles.
Philadelphia Flyers’ Mascot Gritty is a different kinda guy so he takes representing his diverse city of some 1.5 million residents seriously and has no f**ks to give for racists. … Read More
