BusyJunco

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Observations of Oregon, the West Coast, adjacent lands. Interests include housing, politics, local Oregon eateries, transportation, photography. Data scientist, healthcare. She/Her. On free Substack: @busyjunco.

A close up of the face of a terribly neglected but oddly normal looking Chihuahua.
Baklava from Arz bakery at Murray and Allen in Beaverton
A massive crowd for Jo kings day in Boise
A large, lit, sheltered brazier area with bench seating around. You can eat your food with a toasty flame in front of you.
A lunch plate with lightly breaded fish and a salad.
Huge pink and white flowers, a whole field of them, with native white oaks in the background.
A black cat sprawled in a shallow box.
“Portland’s relocation boom: why families are moving here in 2025”
A bright orange sunset in the background as a light rail train pulls away from the station.
A geometric fountain made up of a series of overlapping waterfalls.
A news headline that says super pigs are causing chaos in the Canadian border
Article by krugman: « America is trapped in a burning tesla »
Green lawn, palm trees, redwood tree, and 3 story 1890’s store/apartment buildings in the background.
The big Ferris wheel on the Seattle waterfront with downtown behind and a double decker freeway that has since been removed.
a screenshot of the Oregon State University office of institutional diversity's web page
Photo of kobo ereader with science book pillard of création showing on screen
A herd of Roosevelt Elk with a foggy forest scene beyond their meadow. One bull elk looks toward the camera. He’s daring them to try it. Just try it, he says.
An apparently sweet and innocent little demon. Also a Persian cat with tortoiseshell fur and a snaggletooth.
Snowy flat-topped mountain with forests stretching out in front of it.
A screen grab of the Gulf of Mexico from weather channel app
An old cedar tree with roots extending out to the right like smooth fingers. A log lies across the middle, ferns and forest beyond.
A flock of mallards, about 50 including those out of view, stand in front of a beaten down house with a sign that says “the statutes of the lord are right”
A rocky, barren canyon with some greenish desert scrub. The Snake River flows through the middle.
A view of the interior courtyard of a food cart pod. Wooden picnic benches with carts lined up on either side.
À bar chart showing Wyoming’s local per capote revenue. Federal Transfers in particular is far higher than even other mountain states.
A barren landscape in the foreground with trees burned in a fire. A huge canyon over a mile deep in the distance with the Rocky Mountains rising up like a wall beyond. Slight dusting of snow on the mountaintops.
A very handsome corgi and good boy posing in front of a stately hotel with a green lawn on a sunny day.
A white European style decorative arch in a grassy park. American and Canadian flags fly from the top.
Narrow two story homes with garage on the bottom. Modern style architecture with sharp angles.
A bright yellow two story traditional / 19th century style house with white trim windows and a willow tree.
An English style cottage in a grove of some coastal cypress trees with an English garden and lawn in the foreground. Flower beds, low hedges, the works.
A large, brick red barn with white trim. Snowcapped mountains across the background.
A glassy smooth small river with evergreens lining either side on a sunny day.
a curving row of round fence posts next to the beach. a seagull is captured in mid-flight with their wings in the air like a sharp v.
Taken from atop a forested butte on a sunny day, the video pans left to right across the snow capped peaks of st Helens (kinda flat) , Mt Adams (less flat) and Mt Hood (extra pointy)
An old growth Sitka spruce that grew over a stump centuries ago. Now it has a dozen trunks that surround where the stump used to be. Covered in moss.
Graphic of Tigard, Oregon's Westside Christian High School vs Tigard school district on racial diversity. WC is overwhelmingly white (90%) while the school district is 52% white.
A Victorian home with elaborate trim decorations and two large gables.
Confused chihuahua with a section of small wire garden fence around her.
screenshot of article with headline "Humboldt County supervisors to consider step to legalize Yeehaw community"
Wood paneled legislative chamber. Facing the main podium with colorful mural behind.
A small apartment complex with a big palm tree in front. Building is three stories, white, probably built in the 1970's. Average condition.
A lonely pie-shaped bit of land between busy streets with just a one story empty building. It cries out for more friends.
Photo of return address in envelope: Freedom Foundation, PO Box 552, Olympia, WA 98507.