Graffiti details

A few details from the Graffiti Weekend Show and Shine car show at River Forks Park near Roseburg, Ore., on Saturday, July 13, 2013. 

Belly warmer

A wild western fence lizard soaks up warmth from a rural blacktop roadway in the late afternoon near Elkton, Ore., on Thursday, July 11, 2013.

He was just on the edge of the road and scurried to safety when a car drove past. 

Oh, give me a home

A pair of twin blacktail deer fawns play as their mother feeds in a field near Elkton, Ore., on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. 

Scenic Oregon

My son and I went camping up the North Umpqua River near Roseburg, Ore., this weekend. I shot a few scenic photos.

The North Umpqua River flows through rural Douglas County, Oregon near the Horseshoe Bend campground in the Umpqua National Forest on Saturday, July 6, 2013. 

Watson Falls cascades 272 feet down a green cliff onto rocks below in the Umpqua National Forest near Diamond Lake. Watson Falls is considered the third tallest waterfall in Oregon. 

Another view near the campground.

Rodent control

A domestic cat named Scooter plays with a dead gopher it caught on a farm in rural Douglas County near Roseburg on Monday, July 1, 2013. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, domestic cats kill billions of birds, mice and small animals in the U.S. each year.

Sweet

One of my hobbies is bee keeping. Last year I started two new hives, but didn't harvest any honey. Last weekend, when it got nice and hot, I finally took some of the saved up honey from the two hives. We ended up with about 70 pounds of sticky goodness. I have very friendly bees. I didn't get a single sting during the procedure.

Cherry picking

Last night my dad, my son and I went on a cherry picking excursion to the old pie-cherry tree near the site of an old homestead on our ranch in southwestern Oregon. It was so pretty I had to take a few photos.

My old truck looks pretty good. I wonder if the cherry tree is a long lost variety planted by the the homesteaders 100 years ago.

As I write this, we have a cherry pie in the oven. I can't wait till it cools.