April showers bring May flowers and May showers don’t seem to faze the flowers at all. Lomatiums like grassy areas, and from a distance they don’t stand out from the buttercups. Though the weather has been sporadic lately, we have certainly been blessed with an abundance of spring flowers. Gwen[Read More…]
Photographs by Herald readers
Introducing The Herald’s new contributor with a photo of her visitors enjoying a light breakfast
AMY BRADLEY of Oakridge, The Herald’s newest correspondent, captured this image not far from her home on High Prairie near Oakridge. The community’s prized Roosevelt elk are frequent visitors to the area. Amy makes her debut on this news site today with an occasional column (posted below) that will focus[Read More…]
Look who showed up just in time for morning coffee on the same day citizens spoke up for the elk herd
LORI McMAHON of Oakridge peeked out her front window the other morning and discovered that a number of four-legged neighbors had dropped by for breakfast. “Sometimes I’m just shocked when I look out our front window,” says McMahon, who retired last fall as confidential board secretary for the Oakridge School[Read More…]
An orchard with a message for the higher country
LAUREN KESSLER lives at 1,100 feet in the hills south of Eugene and knows that much of Oakridge is at 1,200 feet, so when the first Asian pear bloomed in her orchard Sunday she thought the image might be of interest to readers of The Herald. “I am betting the[Read More…]