| I had some vague notion of writing about all of this | #DarlingtoniaStateNaturalSite #CobraLily #FlorenceOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| A kind of arithmetic | #DarlingtoniaStateNaturalSite #CobraLily #FlorenceOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I just needed a place to begin | #DarlingtoniaStateNaturalSite #FlorenceOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| One day, disconnected from the next | #DarlingtoniaStateNaturalSite #CobraLily #FlorenceOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I should have understood better | #SuttonLake #FlorenceOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| For a moment, it was a blessing | #SuttonLake #FlorenceOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I had dreams still | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| They have beautiful faces | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| It was a good question, a question from curious and protective friends | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| Thinking back on those particular days | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| Like two people trying to get to know each other | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| That kind of talk keeps you from feeling the beauty of it | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I liked to read and look at birds | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I was actually part of that landscape | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| It felt more like an obligation | #FallCreekFallsStatePark #Tennessee | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| She wanted life to be different, so she made it different | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| It was like being invited into a philosophy | #FallCreekFallsStatePark #Tennessee | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| She had aphorisms about such things | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| The last remembered truth of that summer | #FallCreekFalls #Tennessee | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| This was the thing I'd chosen to feel most deeply about | #NewbergOregon #YamhillCounty #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| When I left, I still felt unsettled | #CumberlandRiver #Nashville #Tennessee | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| It all seemed like a good idea at the time | #CumberlandRiver #Nashville #Tennesee | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| So often I close my eyes and picture the water | #HoodRiverBridge #WaucomaInterstateBridge #ColumbiaRiver #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| A long, silent moment | #HoodRiverOregon #ColumbiaRiver #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| No matter how the world changes | #SunsetHighway #OR26 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| A different way of looking at real life | #CapeKiwanda #PacificCity #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I always hated to leave that place | #TillamookHighway #OR6 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| Not that I ever succeeded in thinking anything through to perfect clarity | #TillamookHighway #OR6 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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This is an edited view of Detroit Lake from Rocky Top in Santiam State Forest that I posted last fall. See my last post for the piece @willclayton_art created and visit his account for more great art pieces.

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@willclayton_art created this piece, inspired by one of my posts from last fall, a view of Detroit Lake from Rocky Top in Santiam State Forest. Gouache and colored pencil on watercolor paper.

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| There are certain incidents that will not allow you to forget them | #TillamookHighway #OR6 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I told her about the letters I was writing | #SunsetHighway #OR26 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| Maybe you should give that some thought | #TillamookHighway #OR6 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| The attempt to feel things deeply | #TillamookHighway #OR6 #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| What if I see something I can't forget | #HaystackRock #CapeKiwanda #PacificCity #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| Just remember as much as you can | #CapeKiwanda #PacificCity #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I'm not suggesting there was anything rational in any of this | #HaystackRock #CapeKiwanda #PacificCity #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| We never had anyone over for dinner | #CapeKiwanda #PacificCity #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I saw myself in that world | #CapeKiwanda #PacificCity #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I had no earthly notion | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| We remember with different emotions | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| A home for honest introspection | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| I just wanted to look | view of #MtWashington from #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| What is remembered here | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| Incidents of arresting strangeness | view of #ThreeFingeredJack from #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman |

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| It smelled like a garden | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | Jamaal May |

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| It can take weeks to memorize a melody | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | Jamaal May |

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| This expectation lingers | View of #ThreeFingeredJack from #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | Claudia Rankine |

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| How that song chimed in wilderness | #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | Sherwin Bitsui |

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| They inherit a packet of earth | view of #BlackButteRanch from #BlackButte #SistersOregon #Oregon | Sherwin Bitsui |

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