A collection of stories from the life of Michael Burke. He worked for the Forest Service in Alaska, California, and Oregon. He lives in Oakland, OR. His wonderful wife, Celia, passed in May of 2021
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
A BAD DAY ON THE FARM
These pictures taken in 2011 on a small farm near Dillard where the Umpqua Bio Fuel group processed grease collected from restaurants into bio diesel. The processing facility was made up of old water heater tanks, and all kinds of plumbing powered by propane. Lucky we did not blow the place up and nothing was on firm ground in the winter as you can see.
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WILDERNESS RANGERS ON HORSES
It was early morning when I saw a pickup truck pulling a horse trailer drive into the ranger station at Pinecrest Lake. I was living in the...
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The lights from houses along the freeway were mingled through the trees in rural southern Oregon. It made me wonder what these people did ...
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Last night I had a wild dream of being lost in Tiller, Oregon. For those of you that have never been to Tiller, it is a small community ne...
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Yesterday one of my sisters told me a lumber mill in Susanville burned down. After looking into the news of Susanville I found out it was t...
You shoulda put some of that effort into making some fine Oregon blackberry mononshine too!
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