Rudy Owens

11/28/2025

Finland has the best clouds. It just does.

11/01/2025

Sellwood Bridge Friday Night Protest, October 31, 2025. Well done people!

Every Friday since early April I have been joining a group of mostly older (like me) Portland residents at peaceful protests on Portland’s Sellwood Bridge du...

10/25/2025

Solo Sokos Hotel Torni, seen from Tampereen Rautatieasema in Tampere, early September 2025.

10/12/2025

Even shopping malls look mighty under clouds that hang over South Ostrobothnia, Finland. (Shot taken in Seinäjoki, Finland, August 2025)

09/08/2025

Finland on my mind, and it will be for many months to come.

07/20/2025

Great concert by Wamba at a Portland Park summer concert series in SE Portland.

06/19/2025

About 20 miles from Portland is an extremely popular, if not overused, trail called Angel's Rest. It was good to get away today. If you go just beyond the first lookout on a lower outcropping, and continue to a higher elevation, you will find sounds of birds amid forests hit hard by a massive fire nearly 8 years ago. I really love this place

05/27/2025

Oaks Park is perhaps one of the most welcoming, diverse spaces in Metro Portland. You see all kinds of ordinary people, mostly families. It is also one of the most affordable places for working families in Metro Portland for a day of family fun.

05/19/2025

This car has not been moved in at least 5 years. You never know what happens in homes with co**se cars. Probably not a happy story.

05/13/2025

This is part of a large mural painting collection on grain silos in Hämeenlinna, Finland. The artist is the brilliant muralist Guido van Helten, who has painted buildings and large structures around the world. To me this captures Finland so well. I planned part of my trip to visit this mural, after I found it as I planned my first trip in 2023.

05/07/2025

Dogwood blossom time, front yard.

04/20/2025

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, added to the U.S. Constitution in 1789, is an important one. Our Bill of Rights safeguard some of our most cherished freedoms, secured by law. Use it or lose it--something we now all know too too well, I believe.
Amendment One to the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."