I’m not sure that I really ever got out to walk around my neighborhood, until the day that the snow was bad enough that we took the day off at work. Yes, the cedar and pine trees are there all the time, as well as the hedges and the steep roadway. but when they are [...]
A little bit of Winter, spread out in the right places, can turn an otherwise mundane place into a thing of beauty. Here, a small park next to a county courthouse becomes a Winter wonderland. The snow and ice decorate the trees in just the right way, like it is flocked for the holiday season. [...]
One of the best things about most of the cities in the Cascadia region is that no matter how big a city you are in, it is never too far from a quiet place among the trees. In this case, the US Bank Tower is clearly visible from between the big trees lining the edges [...]
Somehow, in our busy lives, it is difficult to just stop and watch nature take its course. I had the opportunity to do just that this Spring. Just take a few steps into the woods, don’t disrupt the trees or the lichens, and just enjoy the best of nature. A quiet little place, among the [...]
It always amazes me how the constant wind that happens along the beach can sculpt the trees into such unique shapes. Here, these trees along the edge of Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain on the Oregon Coast have obviously seen years of constant pounding in the wind. In the background is the picturesque beach at Manzanita, where the [...]
No, it’s not that I was really doing anything that I would be embarrassed for. Rather, it was that I was caught doing it. I’m not sure what “it” was, but it is just so very obvious from the way that this seagull is looking at me that I have been caught doing something. (Click [...]
As the sun sets on another summer, we can reflect on some of the paces that we have seen it this year. On one day in August, it was a bit of a relief to note that the sun had passed behind the trees for a moment. Of course, in the whole celestial scheme of [...]
The last time I was standing at Chanticleer Point in the Columbia River Gorge it was March. Many of the trees were bare for the Winter and the cold Easterly wind was blowing pretty good. This week’s trip was a bit more sunny and clear. The scenery was decidedly more green than the last time [...]
As they say, a rolling stone gathers no moss. That is fortunate, since the moss on this large rock near the cliffs around Wahkeena Falls in the Columbia River Gorge shows that this rock hasn’t moved in a while. I would have hated to be standing near that spot when the boulder originally fell onto [...]
In the early part of the 20th Century, highway engineers were working on a project to get a road through the Columbia River Gorge. The technology of the day involved digging four tunnels along the length of the highway. Oneonta Tunnnel is a 125 foot bore through the rock near Oneonta Gorge, and can be [...]
