Peter Lyons: Driving from Bent to Corvallis. Barren pine trees on snowy mountains look like hair folicles.
Peter Lyons: Enormous pine trees flank Route 20 in the Willamette National Forest.
Peter Lyons: When the pine trees finally yield some soil to some non-pine trees, they are covered in thick green moss.
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Peter Lyons: Sunlight hits the moss covered branches of this tree in the Willamette National Forest
Peter Lyons: Ghost town set up in one of the small logging towns
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Peter Lyons: Foster Lake. Near Sweet Home, Oregon. I also passed towns named Boring and ZigZag.
Peter Lyons: The Pub and Pedal meet up point, with special guest Big Wave Lew.
Peter Lyons: Crossing the Willamette River in Portland
Peter Lyons: Hey, check out those red socks!
Peter Lyons: The pub portion of the Pub and Pedal
Peter Lyons: Bernie with a choice potato chip
Peter Lyons: Rostropovich cello trio at the Launchpad art gallery opening for Brent Wear
Peter Lyons: I tried to catch this M4 drum but as I was fiddling with the camera the band member came and took it away, but I still like the colors in this photo.
Peter Lyons: The Mobile Groove Bomb bus stationed outside the Bossa Nova club before the March Fourth show
Peter Lyons: March Fourth. Part marching band. Part side show. Part Burlesque.
Peter Lyons: That statue on the right is a really cool stretched out figure whose dimensions get gradually larger from head to toe
Peter Lyons: The stilt walkers invade the dance floor. Stilt walker crowd surfing was later.
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Peter Lyons: Auctioning off the Mobile Groove Bomb panties at the end of the show. I thought seriously about pulling out the HP corporate AmEx for this, but then reconsidered.
Peter Lyons: M4 snare harness. Way more tricked out than the CHS ones.
Peter Lyons: Protest march for marijuana legalization that blocked us on the way to pick up Lew
Peter Lyons: Venturing into the thick of Washington Park
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Peter Lyons: Tree roots are just so undeniably cool
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Peter Lyons: Plan B restaurant before the Laura Veirs show