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The Splash
Yachats, Oregon
2023

This hunk of driftwood seems to be mimicking the splash of the waves that placed it there.

I’ve Got Your Nose!
Yachats, Oregon
2023

Remember that old “trick” where you tweak some little kid’s nose, then make a fist with your thumb sticking out between your index and middle finger and show it to them claiming “I’ve got you’re nose”?

The Whale
Yachats, Oregon
2023

This oddly shaped log looked very much like a whale to me, and was about the size of an orca to boot.

Resting Place
Yachats, Oregon
2023

We spent some time on the Oregon coast recently, including Yachats where we’ve been a number of times before. Every time we go there, I enjoy seeing what new interesting hunks of driftwood have accumulated on the rocks. We go infrequently enough that it’s rare to see the same log in two different visits. These two logs seem to have found a nice resting place safely above the tides. Of course it was the tides that placed them there in the first place so sooner or later they will be obliged to move on somewhere else I’m sure.

Every Which Way
Oro Valley, Arizona
2023

Memories of a Past Life
Oro Valley, Arizona
2023

Evidence that the Sonoran Desert was not always the beautifully dry environment it is now.

Replenishment
Honey Bee Canyon, Arizona
2023

A passing rain contributes to the groundwater that supplies this windmill. In this case it was a very small contribution (for which I was thankful as I was out on my bicycle at the time), but every little bit helps.

Prickly Aloe
Oro Valley, Arizona
2023

Thriving at the Tohono Chul botanical gardens in Oro Valley, this prickly aloe is actually a native of South Africa–and also something that I can imagine appearing on an early Star Trek scene from some exotic planet elsewhere in space.

Palm Stubble
Oro Valley, Arizona
2023

Up close, the trimmed fronds on the trunk of a palm tree have the look of a forest of strange monolithic structures.

Crossed Palms
Oro Valley, Arizona
2023

Crossed fan palm tree fronds.