willamette river
Portrait, TravelMorgan Stone Gretheroregon, Oregon City, Canemah Bluff Nature Park, Oregon parks project, camas lily, flower, trees, sunset, willamette river, portrait, Elaine Schimek, travel

Canemah Bluff Nature Park

In April 2018, Elaine and I walked the trails of Canemah Bluff Nature Park just south of downtown Oregon City. The sun was setting on a lovely spring day turning everything, even the newly bloomed camas fields, golden…

Portrait, TravelMorgan Stone Gretheroregon, Oregon City, Canemah Bluff Nature Park, Oregon parks project, camas lily, flower, trees, sunset, willamette river, portrait, Elaine Schimek, travel
Canemah Bluff Nature Park
TravelMorgan Stone GretherChampoeg, oregon, pacific northwest, willamette river, trees, hiking, Champoeg State Heritage Area, Oregon parks project, winter, travel

Winter Hike in Champoeg, Oregon

In early February 2017, on a very cold, wet winter's day, I hiked around the Champoeg State Heritage Area outside of Butteville, Oregon. Champoeg (pronounced like "shampooey") was an important settlement in the 19th century and in 1843 formed an early regional government, a key step for the area eventually becoming a state. Today the former townsite is merely a field, but the surrounding 600 or so acres have become a park with forested trails easing along the Willamette River....

TravelMorgan Stone GretherChampoeg, oregon, pacific northwest, willamette river, trees, hiking, Champoeg State Heritage Area, Oregon parks project, winter, travel
Winter Hike in Champoeg, Oregon
PortraitMorgan Stone GretherEve Connell, portland, Sellwood, portrait, willamette river, sellwood riverfront park

Eve Connell

Portland, Oregon, is full of great creative people. Singer Eve Connell is one of them. In February 2017 we shot together at Sellwood Riverfront Park in southeast Portland. With her charm and fearlessness, she's like our town's own Mary Tyler Moore. It was fun to capture some of that spirit.

PortraitMorgan Stone GretherEve Connell, portland, Sellwood, portrait, willamette river, sellwood riverfront park
Eve Connell