The Forest of Fangorn Heceta Head, Oregon 2013

I just saw the movie The Hobbit yesterday and this trail connects into the Hobbit Trail to Hobbit Beach, so the name for this photo came to mind quite naturally. (Well, in the interest of full disclosure, I didn’t actually think of the name Fangorn directly; I’m not enough of a Tolkien fanatic to remember that detail from the books. It was his Ent character named Treebeard  who came to mind, but when I looked him up on the internet it indicated the Ents lived in the Forest of Fangorn.)]]>

Skirting the Edge Heceta Head, Oregon 2013

Light filtering in from the edge of the forest, which the trail was paralleling because it was also the edge of a cliff dropping to the ocean below.]]>

Wild Child Heceta Head, Oregon 2013

Some fog-shrouded trees on Heceta Head, with spiny lower branches that all succumbed; to lack of light I assume. Interesting that one unique branch tried to sprint for the upper story of the forest, with some limited success before it too died.]]>

Coastal Compulsory Heceta Head, Oregon 2013

You can’t hardly visit a rocky coast without photographing a lighthouse; in fact I think it’s required. 🙂 The Heceta Head lighthouse was the only one we got up close to on this trip and access to it was difficult due to renovations that had it fenced off. So all I got was this rather standard view of it, which I post because, like I said, I think it’s required.]]>

How Pebbles Are Made #2 Yachats, Oregon 2013

As with the photo the other day, but in a different manner, these large boulders are destined to be small pebbles one day also I suppose.

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Cats Walking Quietly Heceta Head, Oregon 2014

Today’s observation on poetry: Carl Sandburg is to fog as Robert Frost is to snow.

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Tide Pool Yachats, Oregon 2013

I like this photo even though I couldn’t come up with a creative title for it. Sometimes I guess a tide pool is just a tide pool.  ]]>

A Change of Heart Yachats, Oregon 2013

Re-evaluating the direction his life was heading, Bob had a change of heart; but by then the damage had been done. (Look closely and you will see that “Bob” is the next-door-neighbor of the tree in yesterday’s photo.)]]>

Losing Your Grip Yachats, Oregon 2013

I took a photograph of this same tree several years ago (see Drifting #2 here). I remembered having photographed it but did so again, partly just to see if my view or treatment of it had changed since the last time. Not a lot of difference between the two, but I have to say I like the older one better. What do you think?]]>

Audio Signature Hobbit Beach, Oregon 2013

A quite peculiar sand pattern on the beach, almost like an audio recording of the waves sweeping back and forth across the sand.]]>