oregon

What are we to believe, in a world in which we are told so many, many lies?

I start by finding some small thing that I know to be true, some element of beauty or goodness that is so right, so precious, that there is no ugliness or deceit in it.

And I build upon that.

Bold Innocence art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/bold-innocence-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

#beach #ocean #truth #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #nature #sea #oregon #beauty #god #child #believe #question

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I send thanks to the buyer from Florida who purchased a canvas print of

This Was Our Shangri-La -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/this-was-our-shangri-la-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

May the image take you to a place of contemplation, thought, and purpose.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #oregon #history #landscape #mountains #fedigiftshop #nature #wallowa #wildflowers #quiet #thought #painting #print #canvas #wallart #decor

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Despite a $1.3 billion investment that Portland said would improve the safety of homeless people, deaths in Multnomah County have quadrupled — from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023.

https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-homeless-deaths-multnomah-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Portland #Oregon #Homeless #Deaths

"What a view!" I thought.

I felt as if I had purchased tickets to the balcony, where I watched the show and heard the symphony. Light touched both the surface of the cliff and the foam of the surf, a timeless pageant of majesty that intoxicated without any need for wine.

Cascade Head framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/cascade-head-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

#nature #travel #oregon #ocean #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #USA #artist #seascape #painting #decor #water

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May you get out there, often, to that beautiful place where you feel inspired, relaxed, calm, creative, and free to be who and what you are.

That's how good things get done on this planet -- by individual people who express themselves through who they are, and what they love to do.

Sea Breeze art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/sea-breeze-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

#nature #oregon #travel #ocean #vacation #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #beach #coast #artist #quiet #peace #decor

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I send thanks to the buyer from Iowa who purchased a metal print of

Great Expectations -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/quiet-contemplation-steve-henderson.html

May the artwork inspire you to dream big and be confident in those dreams.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #beach #ocean #oregon #nature #corgis #dog #dogs #pets #animals #sale #USA #inspirational #motivational #travel #sea #artist #believe #dreams

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20% OFF Memorial Day Sale until midnight EST.
Wall art for your Home or Office, Greeting cards (can be framed), Coffee Mugs, Puzzle etc. GIFT ideas, while supporting small businesses, independent artists.

💝https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/

#Washington #Oregon #PNW #ArtForSale #WallArt #Prints #Photography #FathersDay #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #MemorialDay #Birthday #HomeDecor #InteriorDecor #Lifestyle #MastoArt #FediArt #SupportArtists

Hey #Portland there's a guy trying to shoot homeless people in your area. It's rare that a case like this gets so much media coverage, such solid pictures of the attacker AND a $2500 bounty.

Hope y'all locate him:

📍 1300 & 1600 block of Schmeer Road
📍 3500 block of North Victory Blvd.

This man is wanted for questioning after a series of unprovoked shootings targeting homeless people.

https://www.kptv.com/2025/06/12/police-say-someone-is-shooting-homeless-people-north-portland

#PNW #homeless #mutualaid #alerta #calltoaction #oregon #bicycle #ebike

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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
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The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-salmon-columbia-river-tribes-deal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Native #Indigenous #Oregon #Environment #Sustainability #PNW

Remote, isolated, tucked in and surrounded by large, rugged rocks, the small beach is a surprise discovery.

No one else is here.

Maybe, we think, no one else has EVER been here, maybe we're the very first ones to ever, ever find it!

Well, probably not. But for right now, we are the only, only, only ones here.

Lonesome Cove canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lonesome-cove-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#art #artwork #travel #oregon #beach #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #vacation #USA #ayearforart #artist #notai #noai

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You hear the water before you see it, that soft, swishing sound as it falls down the short drop to the pool below.

"What IS that?" you stop and ask yourself, then keep walking until suddenly you see it, this clean cascade of movement, surrounded by lush greenery.

There is a cool mist in the air, as well as a calmness, and you stop to fully experience both.

Cascadia art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/cascadia-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

#art #artwork #nature #hiking #oregon #waterfall #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #green

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It wasn't going anywhere, the mountain.

No matter what you said to it, no matter what names you called it, what slurs you cast upon it, it did not bow down, droop its head, slink away, acquiesce in your opinion.

It just remained: strong, determined, immovable.

Chief Joseph Mountain framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/chief-joseph-mountain-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

#art #artwork #mountain #nature #oregon #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #travel #hiking #outdoors #USA #strong #outside #weather #confident #painting #noai

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Oregon sweet cherry growers produced a beautiful crop but are calling this year a disaster.
Due to the migrant labor shortage and problems with packing plants, their cherries may not reach the market.
#oregon
#migrantworkers
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/07/a-disaster-of-a-year-oregon-farmers-say-2025-is-a-sour-season-for-sweet-cherries.html

📖 New chapter: “The Tracks to Tillamook”
On Day 9 of my Oregon Coast Trail adventure, I ditched the guidebook and followed a path less traveled. It was another brush with serendipity, unexpected beauty, and a heart-pounding test of courage I never saw coming.

Let’s just say I REALLY I earned my ice cream!

→ https://seasonsofjason.com/hiking-the-oregon-coast-trail-day-9-the-tracks-to-tillamook/

#Oregon #Hiking #Trail #adventure

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I send thanks to the buyer from Colorado who purchased an art print of

Looking Towards Hurricane Valley -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/looking-towards-hurricane-valley-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

May the artwork take you to a place of peace, quiet, calm and beauty.

#art #artwork #nature #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #oregon #USA #ayearforart #wallart #decor #landscape #hiking #travel #mountains #wilderness #meadow #summer #sale #artist

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May you find time today to be in a beautiful place, one in which you are undisturbed by surrounding noise, so that you can fully focus on what you see before you.

Because nature is timeless, and she has much to teach us, and she starts by arresting our attention, drawing it away from the distractions that do little but worry and harass us.

Convergence canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/convergence-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#beach #ocean #nature #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #travel #oregon #vacation #USA

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PDX.social is a Mastodon server for the Portland, Oregon region in the USA. It has been operating since 2017.

https://pdx.social

You can find out more at https://pdx.social/about or contact @admins if you have any questions.

#FeaturedServer #Portland #Oregon #PortlandOR #UnitedStates #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

"Indigenous teen Keeya Wiki kayaked the entire Klamath River. It’s just the beginning"

gift link = https://www.oregonlive.com/native-american-news/2026/02/indigenous-teen-keeya-wiki-kayaked-the-entire-klamath-river-its-just-the-beginning.html?gift=7bb68a3d-aaea-4970-9170-7d85368602c2

"Ashland High School student Keeya Wiki kayaked 310 miles on the Klamath River last summer ...

The historic first descent of the newly undammed Klamath River by Indigenous teens captured the world’s attention and launched Keeya into the spotlight."

#Oregon #California #KlamathRiver #Outdoors #Kayaking #Indigenous

"Oh," she thought, "if there were simply a way that this moment could last forever . . . "

Contentment feels like that.

Catching the Breeze greeting card (singles, and in packs of 10 and 25) -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/catching-the-breeze-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #travel #vacation #oregon #beach #ocean #sunset #twilight #color #colorful #USA #nature #joy #artist #card #impressionism #emotion #fabric #woman #beauty #femme

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I send thanks to the buyer from Utah who purchased a tapestry art print of

Wilderness Lake -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/wilderness-lake-steve-henderson.html?product=tapestry

May the artwork fill your home and walls with the majesty, peace, and beauty of wild, unspoiled nature.

#art #artwork #nature #mountains #oregon #travel #hiking #camping #USA #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #landscape #wilderness #peace #peaceful #quiet #calm #color #colorful #impressionism #painting #notai #noai #painterly #trees #lake

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For #PhotoFriday I picked an #Abstract today: Graceful flight of Gulls over the Pacifics.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/graceful-flight-of-gulls-over-the-pacifics-abstract-ez-lorenz.html

#Oregon #PNW #Minimalist #PhotoOfTheDay #Birds #Gulls #ICM #Photography #Motion #ArtForSale #ArtPrints #WallArt #Prints #HomeDecor #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Summer

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One of the scariest moments of my life was when I fled #boise #idaho to #portland #oregon with nothing.

I was #homeless and desperate, and there was nothing left for me there but bad memories, and very few resources for someone poor.

I had exhausted all my options, and I was just trying not to die.

Still recovering from #opioids I got on a Greyhound to a shelter I had lined up in advance, and stepped from a desert into rain.

All that effort and fear just to have a bed.

#writing

Nature has her moments of fury and storm. But she also has times, many times, of serenity and calm, times when we can look and marvel at her majesty.

And experience peace.

Eventide greeting card -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/eventide-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #oregon #ocean #USA #travel #sunset #twilight #peace #sea #pacific #clouds #sky #water #greetingcard #artist #humanmadeart #notai #noai #beauty

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Short thread 🧵

Want to skip the official state of the union? (which will be full of lies 🙄)

Oregon senators Wyden & Merkley will "co-host a live on-line town hall that day with People’s Town Hall to offer all Oregonians the opportunity to ask questions as well as share their ideas and viewpoints."

Feb. 24, 2:30 PM Pacific

More details: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-merkley-wont-attend-state-of-the-union-will-instead-hold-virtual-town-hall-for-oregonians-on-february-24

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#USPol #ORPol #Oregon #TownHall #StateOfTheUnion #Resist

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Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires.

Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #Wildfires #Map #Home #Misinformation #Climate #ClimateChange