Friday shoot-out: Look up, look down

The idea of the Friday My Town Shoot-Out is to post photos of your local community every Friday. This week's assignment was chosen by the Town Blogger Team.

Photos taken in Corvallis, Oregon.

If you are downtown and looking up, hopefully you will see the gargoyles that grace the post office:

Apropos of no other building in town, they are my favorite feature of all.

I mean, why not? We're a long way from Europe, but we can pretend.

Downtown, looking down, you will notice the donor stars reflected here in the glass door of the renovated Majestic Theater.

Anywhere else in this part of Oregon, you will look up to see trees. There are lots of oaks in the valley.

And Douglas Fir are everywhere. This is the mainstay of the western Oregon forests: they are sooooo tall.

I got a face full of snow a split second after trying to take a picture of this eagle's nest high in a tree.

With so many trees it makes sense that when you look down, you'll see leaves. This one is valentine-y.

I finally discarded a Christmas poinsettia and it dropped its leaves all the way to the compost bin: this leaf caught a few of the billions of raindrops that have fallen recently.

Ed and Reub have been lobbying for more visibility in FSO. Reub is always looking down for something to sniff or play with, so I guess he deserves a shot.

Ed, on the other hand, believes in keeping his eye on the ball.

Maybe they can have some space in next week's post; I don't know, we'll see...