wildflowers in Oregon …

Launch

A full-length leap into the day.

Masked berry thieves

And then, they clearcut it again…

They named it God’s Valley.

And then, they clearcut it.

Spring arrives…

…Coronavirus be damned.

social distancing …

.. in the high desert of southern Oregon.

bark …

… a posterized look at the bark of a tree on the Nevada-Oregon border.

the state flower …

… of Wyoming, insists Google. This specimen sits on the Nevada-Oregon border along Route 140 near Antelope Butte.

road hazard …

… along Route 140 near the Oregon-Nevada border. A cowpoke and three dogs drove about 50 head of cattle up the highway from State Line Valley 1,000 feet below to Antelope Butte.

remnants …

… along Route 395 in south-central Oregon north of Lake Abert.

Deeper: McKenzie Pass, OR

Uplift: McKenzie Pass, Oregon

a little time alone

went stomping around in the woods yesterday. it’s so immense. hard to find things to capture. i found this pair of tree trunks … a show of dark and light, with a strange sense of motion. i need to remember that looking at the whole can be debilitating. find something smaller that makes sense.