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| With a colorful maple tree in the background, a ranch dog named Lily plays fetch in a pasture near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. |
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| Lily rides in a pickup through a pasture near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. We only drive very slow on the ranch with Lily in the back of the pickup. Never on actual roads. |
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| Colorful maple leaves blanket the ground as small mushrooms grow in the pasture. |
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| A small spider weaves its web on a fence under a large raindrop on a farm near Elkton, Ore., on Sunday. Oct. 25, 2015. After a long dry summer the fall rains seem to have started in Oregon. |
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| It's my photo, via ZUMAPRESS.com, in The Week in Wildlife Pictures in the Guardian. |
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| Rain falls as a pair of black tailed deer appear to have a disagreement in a field along a country road near Elkton in Southwestern Oregon on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. |
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| ...and the winner is... |
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| A herd of Roosevelt elk run across a country road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. The Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), also known as Olympic elk, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America. |
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| The herd of Roosevelt elk feed in an orchard along a country road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. |
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| A large Jerusalem cricket walks on a mossy log on a forested hillside near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. Jerusalem crickets are not true crickets and are not found in Jerusalem. They're native to the western United States and Mexico. |
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| A small spider leaves a safety line of silk behind as it walks on a rusty strand of electric fence wire an a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. |
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With a grim look on his face, President Obama leaves Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Oregon on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The president was visiting with family and victims of the Oct. 1 shooting rampage at nearby Umpqua Community College.              |
