#Willamette

[federer7]

Kid with Tomanowos/ Willamette Meteorite, Hayden Planetarium, 1955

American Museum of Natural History Archive

[duckcruz]

Willamette Watercolor

[lunarmagicteatime]

Waterfalling for you

[ursulapaddington]

© 2023 Ursula Paddington

⇄  &  ❤  !

[crisicsgames]

DEAD RISING VI PRESENTO LA FAMIGLIA CECCHINO E ANTIQUARIO WILLAMETTE

DEAD RISING MEET THE CECCHINO FAMILY AND ANTIQUARIAN WILLAMETTE

[thegreypedaler]

[detritvs]

[yourninjasareajoke]

who’s a pretty boy living on the west side?

u are! well worth the 5hr drive :)

[megbits]

One of the things that I love about where I live is the widespread culture of intentional place-making paired with creative sense-making about place: the many artists and writers shaping how we relate to where we are, past, present, and future. 

Just to provide a small sampling, here in Portland one finds groups like City Repairbuilding neighborhood visual identity through street murals, or hyperlocal publications like Buckman Journal. Around the state are any number of projects such as Pine Meadow Ranch, deliberately connecting art, agriculture, and ecology. And of course you have OPB, prolifically producing not just news but podcasts and videosthat keep an eye on history, culture, and natural science all at once, along with their regular coverage of all our other artists and place-makers.

And you can throw into that mix Oregon Humanities, a group dedicated not just to cultural programming around the state but to fostering dialogue and discussion as well. They also produce a seasonal magazine, focused on a theme; the theme for Winter 2023 is “Underground,” with writers exploring “things hidden or buried, for better or worse: subcultures and political currents and stories and plants and pollutants.”

There's some great pieces in the issue, see my recommendations on which to check out in this week's Unsettling post over on Substack: https://unsettling.substack.com/p/underground-in-oregon

[arkoptrix]

Male Gadwall

[lunarmagicteatime]

Heron God follows me everywhere.

[summerwages]

side eye from the big guy...

rough-legged hawk...perhaps

[crisicsgames]

DEAD RISING SACRIFICIO DELLA SETTA FERMATA DA MEGAMAN SEXY WEST "EASTER EGGS"

[bobcronkphotography]

Down By The Dock

Portland, Oregon

Bob Cronk

[detritvs]