Cedar Root

When conditions are right, the ground saturated with rain and the winds wild, one of our towering evergreens will lose it`s grip on the earth and topple, literally uprooted. If undisturbed the trunk will become a 'nurse' log and support abundant new life. The root system, now exposed, will take decades to break down. As it does it becomes dramatically sculptural.

Iron Mountain Walk

2001 Still Life

I`m closing in on my big forest painting and I hope to post photos of it`s progression soon.

Estuary Night

Iron Mountain Study

On my easel is a giant canvas where a forest is finally coming together, but I`ve been taking some breaks to do small things. This is from a new walk I`m enjoying. It`s a former quarry, now a vertical park clinging to the side of a mountain. Much of the steel used to build early Portland, came from the iron mined here.

November Poplar

I saw this on a walk the other day. While the image was fresh, this is what I could remember.

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