The view from this home in Redmond, Oregon.
Friends of LandCrazed (the blogger) went and did it. They built themselves a dream house on one of the most amazing canyon rims this side of The Grand Canyon: Crooked River Canyon, home of Smith Rock
By choosing to look in Redmond, Oregon instead of over-the-top Bend — [...]
Cindy Sheehan bought a 5-acre parcel of land in Crawford, Texas so her anti-war campaign against “president” Bush and the war in Iraq could have a home. Now she is calling it quits — and calling on other Americans to do more than we have done since falsified intelligence and various other lies perpetrated [...]
America, we have seen the future and it is Central Oregon.
Does that sound like hyperbole on a grand scale? Well, if the shoe fits … because GRAND is about the only way to begin conveying the breadth and scale and magnificence of this stunning part of the U.S.A.
As an East Coaster who has cultivated [...]
Off we go, the LandCrazed gang, on a trip to central Oregon where, 33 million years after the lava flowed, we’re going in search of semi-precious gems. Hey look, ma! We’ve gone from being LandCrazed to being RockHounds!
Uh oh … We smell another BLOG!
Destination is the Deschutes & Ochoco National Forest, which has as its [...]
It’s rather amusing that for a blogger who has not made a stitch of denaro since going on a personal sit-down strike that LandCrazed (the blogger) could somehow justify shelling out $$$ on Amazon for a great book. (We try and spread the book-buying between the lovely local merchant who charges full price PLUS and [...]
We have to go to Yakima. Why? Because LandCrazed (the 8-year-old daughter of) HAS TO HAVE A PUPPY! So, in searching for springer spaniel puppies, we found out that Jeremy, the owner of West Valley Boarding Kennel in Yakima, has 9 springer pups born to Nellie and HE CAN”T deal with 9 puppies so [...]
Middle Age in America these days — according to THE MEDIA — means trying to sell the RETIREMENT DREAM to anyone with a 401K or a pension that might not go bust. Even Dennis Hopper is hawking New Middle Age Retirement planning on TV ads.
That’s why it was not a surprise to find the May [...]
Maybe the importance about salvation of our rural lands has taken on an urgency because of the more alarming landscapes we tend to see in our daily American lives.
The work of photographer Chris Jordan is brought to LandCrazed (the blog) because, in addition to Chris being a parent at the same Seattle elementary school where [...]
Barbara Kingsolver has always been ahead of the curve in her ideas, writing and politics — as if these could be separated. Her new book has just been released and it’s a non-fiction narrative that describes her family’s move from Tucson back to Appalachia where Kingsolver, her husband and their two daughters took [...]
Someone’s going to win the race for creating THE SITE for land search. Don’t know who. Don’t know where. But just like the GREAT RACE for residential listings now taking place in web 2.0 world of wonders — and mashables — land listing sites are flooding the market and reaching for the brass ring … [...]
