Reader Photos: A rainbow and a palette

August 7, 2022

Lawrence Nagel of Ashland captured this double-rainbow photo, at right, from Ashland Loop Road in the spring of this year, and a picture of an artist (who didn’t give his name, but did give his permission) in Lithia Park near “Dipper Bridge.

Email your photos taken in and around Ashland to betling@ashland.news. Be sure and include the names of people in the photo (if any, from left to right and front to back), where and when taken and by who, and what’s going on in the photo. Note: Photos with a horizontal (“landscape”) orientation work better in our web design.

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Bert Etling is the executive editor of Ashland.news. Email him at betling@ashland.news.

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