Cairn Family
Heceta Head, Oregon
2018

Obsidian Cliffs
Heceta Head, Oregon
2018

They’re not really cliffs, at least not very tall ones. It’s not really obsidian either but it sure looked like it to me. The faux-obsidian look is much more obvious in color so I did not convert this one to black and white.

Three
Yachats, Oregon
2018

Pothole Glyphs
Yachats, Oregon
2018

Upsetting Mom’s Place
Yachats, Oregon
2018

Bare Tree #20
Yachats, Oregon
2018

From this angle you might think this is a shot of the butt end of a long log as are typical along the coast. This chunk of wood however was pretty spherical in shape, roughly four feet in diameter. Perhaps it was the stump of a large tree that washed into the ocean and subsequently rounded by repeated pounding on the rocks in the surf.

Sea Cairn
Yachats, Oregon
2018

Bare Tree #19
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
2018

Bare Tree #18
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
2018

Imagine what this tree with its roots embracing the old-growth tree stump on which it was growing look like once the stump completely rots away. In my mind I see a tree standing on its tip-toes.

Bare Tree #17
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
2018

I was intrigued both by the horizontal orientation of this tree’s roots and by how they’d been exposed on what appeared to be a vertical wall. A closer looked revealed that the wall was actually a large fallen tree (a so-called nursery tree) that the live tree had taken root in years ago. The nursery tree had rotted away, leaving the younger tree’s roots exposed.