The Highlands is located in King City, which is just a little ways southwest of Portland, Oregon. We have seasons up here! The views, colors, and textures change throughout the year — and even within the span of a day.
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The Highlands Clocktower, at SW 131st Avenue & SW Peachvale Street.
One of the neighborhood black-tailed deer, visiting a backyard garden (shot through a window)
A better view of the black tail on a black-tailed deer
A paper birch, showing its fall colors (October 2018)
Maples on the Central Greenway (October 2017)
A maple among pines and rhododendrons
A birch among the taller Douglas firs (October 2017)
Just a few leaves left on this birch, against a beautiful Fall sky (October 2017)
Maples in Fall display (October 2017), on the South Greenway
Maples in Fall display (October 2017), on the South Greenway
This birch has lost all its leaves, while the maple is only half-way through! (October 2017)
An Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica, not native to the Pacific Northwest), along the western walkway (October 2017)
A Japanese maple, showing off in front of a home in the Highlands (November 2017)
Another view of one of the maples on the Central Greenway (November 2017)
There's a fungus among us! Seen along the South Greenway, late November 2017.
Snow falling through the firs along the South walking path, Christmas Eve 2017.
A beautiful Highlands sunrise, January 2018
A gray squirrel, working hard to get some seeds out of a bird feeder!
Leopard slug
Limax maximus
This fellow (actually, I have no idea what the gender might be) was making its way across the walking path. It was about 4" long!
