POTD: The Bluest Lake

From 2018 09 17 Crater Lake

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Oregon's Crater Lake. Crater Lake is the bluest lake in the world. Change my mind.

Idle Thoughts: Rare Sweltering Summer

Tweets from August, 2019:

• 2019-08-01: DMN headline: "Rare sweltering summer grips Alaska."
  "Rare." I guess when each summer is hotter than the last, you could say each one is technically "rare."
• 2019-08-01: @RepLanceGooden, how many heart-wrenching stories of children separated from their parents and put in cages have you heard and still stood by without doing anything?
• 2019-08-01: @JimSchutze, Silly Jim. The reason the News didn't first have that "basic, Journalism 101, garden variety conversation" you identified is because the News is not a product of the journalism school. It's a product of the business school.

After the jump, more idle thoughts.

POTD: Deboning a Boat

From 2018 09 14 Portland

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Portland, Oregon's Willamette River.

Vacant Office Buildings in Richardson

Community Impact has a detailed story on empty office buildings in Richardson. 85.2% of the square feet of office buildings in Richardson is leased. Eleven buildings comprising 1.4 million square feet are totally vacant. Is that good or bad? Community Impact doesn't really say.

POTD: Upper North Falls

From 2018 09 14 Portland

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Oregon's Silver Falls State Park. The waterfall is the Upper North Falls, one of many on the Trail of Ten Falls in this impressive state park.

POTD: Trail of Ten Falls

From 2018 09 14 Portland

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Oregon's Silver Falls State Park. "Where else can you walk behind a waterfall? Check out the famous South Falls and see what a 177-foot curtain of water looks like from behind. It’s part of the Trail of Ten Falls."

Bonus photos after the jump.

POTD: Autumn at Silver Falls

From 2018 09 14 Portland

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Oregon's Silver Falls State Park.

Bonus photos after the jump.

POTD: The Abstract Art of Nature

From 2018 09 11 Yellowstone

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.

Bonus photos after the jump.

POTD: Back from the Brink of Extinction

From 2018 09 11 Yellowstone

Today's photo-of-the-day is of an American bison in Yellowstone National Park. Let's feel good that we saved the bison from extinction, but also keep in mind that by some estimates, "we're now losing species at up to 1,000 times the [natural] rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day."

POTD: Grand Prismatic Spring

From 2018 09 11 Yellowstone

Today's photo-of-the-day is of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Bonus photos after the jump.