#WALLOWAS
#ClimateBREAKDOWN Reports….Where I am doing photo fieldwork now #WALLOWAS #OREGON #ALPS
September 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Autumn in the Wallowas - should be amazing.
September 28, 2026 at 2:58 PM
#foto Roundup, POWDER RIVER Country….

#photo #WALLOWAS #OREGON
September 21, 2026 at 1:51 AM
#classicalmusic 🎵 FREEDOM IS…. / LA LIBERTAD ES.….composed on Hurricane Creek, the WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters, by Cliff Crego | Kostenlos online auf SoundCloud anhören soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #freedom #libertad #cello #musicsky
FREEDOM IS…. / LA LIBERTAD ES.….composed on Hurricane Creek, the WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters
IMAGE: Hurricane Creek, where the piece was composed…. FREEDOM IS.... Freedom is....my right to defend your right to criticize our own government when it is led astray by the corruption of oil and t
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September 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
#foto Right now, where I’m doing #ClimateBREAKDOWN fieldwork….the wild & magnificent HURRICANE CREEK, Northside of the #WALLOWAS, Land of Winding Waters #OREGON

“Time,” the Water said to the Rock,
“Is but the difference
that flows between us.

#photo #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️
September 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM
#Humpday from Maxwell Lake in the Wallowas 🍑✌️
September 17, 2026 at 6:21 AM
#foto Granite, on HURRICANE CREEK, Northside #WALLOWAS #OREGON Where I’m camped now

For me, the sound of rushing water
is the sound of all sounds; it contains
all other sounds. Certain is, is that
it heals—esp. if you’re #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️
our ears & lets us forget the Car Culture noise.

#music
September 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Perfect. I'll be in the Wallowas for my yearly Terminal Gravity fix 🍻.
September 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
#musicsky 🎵 A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION: A fractal vortex soundpoem... by Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

#MUSIC? The one things humans do
that makes the rest of #NATURE jelous.

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #OREGON #poetry #poesia #gedicht
A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION: A fractal vortex soundpoem...
IMAGE: Old Chief Joseph Gravesite, Wallowa Lake, OREGON A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... See the destructive nature of runaway thought, of the hyper-self-centered Hydro-carbon-man: money has r
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September 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
If I sat here & painted every day for the rest of my life, I still could not get this terrain quite right. Knees & pyramids & ridges & folded velvet.
September 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Sweet! On webcams and satellite, it looks like the Wallowas did well, probably the Seven Devils too.
September 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Good news in the Wallowas
September 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Continuing my quiet appreciation of the Wallowas.
August 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
#foto Sulfur Cinquefoil (Potentila recta) skyview 1440m +-Summer Solstice. There are 3 other native Potentilas at this elevation #WALLOWAS #OREGON

I know this Cinquefoil from the #ALPS.
In the WALLOWAS, it forms monocultures
w/ a distinctive synchronized rhythm:
they open together at noon!

#flora
August 25, 2026 at 2:54 AM
#classicalmusic TIMES NINE: #Music & #Poetry, side by side “Simplexity” by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

(1) I’m too poor in this world, after RILKE
(2) OCTOBER MINIATURE: Four Miniatures
(3) NEW MUSIC Reports: Simplexity
(4) DESERTS: part four, Edgard Varèse

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #jazzsky
TIMES NINE: Music & Poetry, side by side “Simplexity”
IMAGE: Mountain Snowberry (Symphoricarpus oreophilus) ripening its berries in August sun. Important wildlife food in early Winter, the WALLOWAS, Land of Winding Waters, OREGON Nine tracks…. (1) I’m
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August 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
#gedicht #muziek GURU, een klankgedicht, van Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

“Ze ziet dit,
verbaasd, de vastberaden blik
van de jonge moeder,
een omhulsel van
bescherming van ergens…”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Krishnamurti #ALPS #Amsterdam
GURU, een klankgedicht
IMAGE: Hackberry (Celtis reticulata) by spring, Sagebrush Steppe, WALLOWAS, OREGON GURU Als de deur dichtgaat, klinkt er een gerinkel van belletjes -- het regent, het is koud, de winkel is warm maar
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August 24, 2026 at 2:54 AM
#nativeplants BITTERROOT (Lewisia rediviva) 1100m, signature species of NEast #OREGON

Rocky ridges, highly adapted
to HOTTER DRIER climate w/
deep tap root, succulent leaves,
summer dormancy

#wildflowers #foto #photo June aspect #ClimateBREAKDOWN #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters
August 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
#foto DEVIL’S ROPE 😱 scourge of the West: Barb on Wire; Barb on Plant...

STEENS Mountain #OREGON: Volunteers removed
63 miles (approx. 101 km) of fencing by hand,
weighing more than 125 tons.

#ecology #philosophy #ethics #photo #WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters…
August 23, 2026 at 1:55 AM
thread A GUMWEED #TALKINGHAND vocal #yoga plant poster for young ppl.🌼 You learn these like a musical score 🎵, phrase by phrase, breath by breath, by heart. Chanting singing dancing. Lots of fun!

#wildflower #flora #ecology #botany #ClimateBREAKDOWN #OREGON #WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters…
August 22, 2026 at 5:42 PM
#wilderflowers Muhakum (Shoshone) CURLY-CUP GUMWEED (Grindelia squarrosa) w/ remarkably resinous bracts in overlapping rows of phyllaries, in decrescendo 1300m, flourishing in #WALLOWAS #OREGON AUGUST HOT DROUGHT

You can pick these gummy buds
& chew them! Clears lungs of smoke

#nativeplants #foto
August 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
#nativeplants 🌿 Yellow Mule’s ears (Wyethia amplexicaulis) distinctively beautiful leaf venation. At 1300m grows next to White Mule’s ears (W. helianthoides) that flowers abt 2 or 3 weeks earlier.

Genus named for The Ice Man
featured in #THOREAU WALDEN POND.

#OREGON #wildflowers #foto #WALLOWAS
August 22, 2026 at 4:01 PM
#foto Whitebark pine 🌲 Timeline composed on a crosscut of its wood, from 1750 (the death of #BACH) to present…

Each red dot marks an 🌎 population increase
of 1,000,000,000 ppl in just 15cm
of the wood’s tight grain

#ClimateBREAKDOWN #WALLOWAS #OREGON
August 21, 2026 at 10:08 PM
#foto FIELDWORK on the former BENSON GLACIER w/ (Lost) Glacier Peak c.2900m Eagle Caps #WALLOWAS #OREGON

A part of my slideshow COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN,
book one, the TEACHING TREE & LIVING WATER
sequences vimeo.com/860227400

#trekking #photo The source of the ice that carved WALLOWA LAKE 1400m
August 21, 2026 at 6:34 PM