Jacksonville, Oregon
A couple weeks ago I went down to southern Oregon to chase wildflowers, bugs and year birds. It's another world down there filled with more friendly people and poison oak than a person like me could ever need. But the flowers? Yeah, they make up for that. I ended up in Jacksonville on a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon in search of the Jacksonville Woodlands I learned about on the incredible Pacific Northwest Wildflowers website. After driving through the cutest movie-like town I've ever seen I followed a narrow road straight up a hill to gravel parking area. I got out of the car and Acorn Woodpeckers demanded attention as they tried to shove acorns into various electrical contraptions. I had recently drowned my Canon R7 on a rainy day walk and was borrowing Jacob's nicer R5 with a 100-500 lens. As I walked away from the woodpeckers a guy about my age was coming off the trail. "Hey what lens is that?" Ugh. I do not enjoy talking cameras or optics or any o...
