Friday My Town Shoot-Out: Colors of the Rainbow

Patty (a retired photojournalist) and Reggie Girl (who raises money for shelter dogs in Georgia) organized the Friday Photo Shoot Out. The idea is to post photos of your local community every Friday. It has grown from just two participants to dozens of folks all over the place. This week's assignment, chosen by Deborah in Germany, is "Colors of the Rainbow."

I just joined this group two days ago, hardly time to think about the theme, but here goes:

This is western Oregon, and real live rainbows aren't an unusual occurrence here, but do I have a photo of one? No. However there are spots of color here, even on a cloudy day. For example this picture, taken yesterday in our back yard, is what a rope toy looks like shortly after being given to Reub, and I think it qualifies quite nicely for this assignment:


You are waiting for a shot of the community though, aren't you? Well, the predominant color here for most of the year is green. If you were to drive 3 hours east of Corvallis, this would not be the case; the palette changes to tans and ochers there on the dry side of the Cascades. But here we are connoisseurs of the color green: kelly green grass, blue green spruce in the distance, lush green moss, pale grey green lichens. The complexity of the color green never fails to absorb me.

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This is John's shot of Beazell Forest, a patchwork of greens just west of town.

Here is another of John's photos from Beazell Forest, a favorite place to run our dogs. With all of those baby Doug firs in the understory, it is a forester's delight; and from top to bottom it is a distinct rainbow of green. Sometimes you just don't even miss the red, yellow, orange, blue and violet.