Christy Solo

This week’s Rogue is a follow-up to the Feb. 4, 2026 column. Which was (apparently – time flies!) the last time I trimmed my dogs.

With vacation season upon us, over the next two weeks we’ll explore a handful of Oregon’s many quirky/unique hotels.

This week’s crawly put the “B” in “Beneficial”; they are also excellent dancers. Meet the black scavenger fly (Family Sepsidae) AKA the ensign fly.

This week finds us on part ?? of The Continuing Saga of Cri Takes Back Her Yard from the Himalayan Blackberry.

If you want to catch up, you can read the first two Rogues on the subject here and here.

Tying in with the upcoming Free Fishing Weekend (see story in this edition) for this week’s All Things we’re working with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to bring you “50 places to go fishing within 60 minutes of Medford.”

In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend, All Things Oregon will re-explore various area veterans memorials you may want to visit, if not this Memorial Day then plan ahead for 2027.

This week’s crawly falls under the “Look DON’T TOUCH” category. We’ll also add that eating one would be even worse – not that you’d be tempted – but stay away from the “double dog dares” with this critter.

The spring/summer bird watching in my yard is a bit dull. This is the exact opposite of how the spring/summer bird watching was at my house in Trail. There I had “all the colorful birds” Grosbeaks, Tanagers, Orioles, one million Tree Swallows and eight million baby birds.