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This is a photo I took last year of an old barn on Hwy 30 near Clatskanie, Or.  There was probably no Hwy 30 to Astoria when the barn was built.

Photo: Clatskanie, OR 2007    © 2007 mkellar

Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge near Oceanside, Or.  There are nesting colonies of Common Murre, Tufted Puffins, Leach’s Storm-petrel. Brandt’s Cormorant and Pigeon Guillemot on these rocks.  Visitors and boats are not allowed to approach closer than a 1000 feet from the refuge. 

Photo taken from a hillside rental in the late evening on 1-18-2004    © 2004 mkellar

Snowbank Orange Peel Fungus “Caloscypha fulgens” Cup shaped when young becoming flatter and more irregular with age, 0.5 to 1.5″ across,  bright yellow-orange to orange. Spring to early summer in damp areas under conifers shortly after the snow melts.

Photo: Cone Peak near Sweet Home, Or. 06/05/2007    © 2007 mkellar

Creek Trillium “Pseudotrillium rivale”  formerly “Trillium rivale”, Lily Family (Liliaceae), Lily Family (Lililaceae).  Perennial, bulbous rhizome, plant 1.5 to 6″ tall, flowers white and spattered with pink or purple.  Blooms in early spring in moist soils near wooded areas in S.W. Or. 

Photo:  Near Selma, Or. 4/28/2007.    © 2007 mkellar

Glistening Inkcap  “Coprinellus micaceus” (formerly “Coprinus micaceus”)  Cap yellowish brown to 2″ across, stalk to 4.5″ tall, spore print brown to black, oval to bell-shaped with minute glistening particles but eventually convex.  I am not 100% sure on the identification but I am pretty sure it’s not a morel. 

Photo:  Near Rainier, Or. 12/10/2008    © 2008 mkellar

I have driven by this old barn just South of St. Helens, OR on Hwy 30 for many years and have watched the silo tip little by little in imitation of the “Leaning Tower of Pisa”.  It is a battle of wills and I have every intention of being the last one standing. 

Photo:  St Helen’s Or. 12/11/2008   © 2008 mkellar

Lilac Conifer Cortinarius,  Cap violet and up to 5″ across, stalk lilac to purple and up to 5″ tall.  Gills cinnamon to rusty brown.  The spore print is rusty brown and the mushroom has a fruity smell.  Non edible. 

Photo:  Near Rainier, Or 12/11/2008    © 2008 mkellar

Satyr Anglewing, Wingspan 2 inches, feasting on an Annual False Dandelion  “Agoseris heterophylla” Sunflower Family (Asteraceae)

Photo:  Big Summit Prairie near Prineville, Or. 6/16/2008   © 2008 mkellar