The best light I'd encountered this year - Salmon River Trail #OregonExplored

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The closest of friends - Hard Stone Trail #OregonExplored

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Steps show the way - Alsea Falls Recreation Site #OregonExplored

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Coming up for air - Oswald West State Park #OregonExplored

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The trail here was soupy with mud - Cape Falcon #OregonExplored

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Only a little more than a mile from the freeway, we had entered another world - Deschutes River State Recreation Area #OregonExplored

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Before our climb, we walked through a garden - Bunker Hill #WashingtonExplored

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Fingers or toes? - Cottonwood Canyon State Park #OregonExplored

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A water jewel - Old Salmon River Trail #OregonExplored

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It's really not that hard to find this place - Lost Lake #OregonExplored

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The river was clean and clear - Salmon River #OregonExplored

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This was just a few weeks before the massive ice storm - Smith Creek #OregonExplored

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The path curves before crossing the water - Dalles Mountain Ranch #WashingtonExplored

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This is joy - Manzanita #OregonExplored

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One of the strongest smells of spring - Oswald West State Park #OregonExplored

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Sturdy and strong - Bald Peak State Scenic Viewpoint #OregonExplored

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Ridges - Lan Su Chinese Garden #OregonExplored

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Watchers - Dalles Mountain Ranch #WashingtonExplored

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Perspective lines - Old Salmon River Trail #OregonExplored

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Juniper and rock - Cottonwood Canyon State Park #OregonExplored

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The trees push almost all the way up to the water - Short Sand #OregonExplored

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It was the perfect kind of day to be outside. But we knew, even then, that winter was coming - Sherrard Point #OregonExplored

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The water was fierce - Cape Falcon #OregonExplored

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They seemed to understand each other - Lee Falls #OregonExplored

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Red and white - Portland #OregonExplored

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It rained off and on the entire way out to the beach, but the rain stopped as we entered Rockaway, so we got out just long enough to feel the wind and look at the rocks - Twin Rocks #OregonExplored

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Like an explosion - Deschutes River State Recreation Area #OregonExplored

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It was October, but there was a smell of wet dirt and green that felt like spring - Silver Falls State Park #OregonExplored

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There's always something going on out here - Wasco County #OregonExplored

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To cross into light - Old Salmon River Trail #OregonExplored

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We waited here awhile and then walked all the way to the locked gate and no trespassing signs before turning around and heading back home - Lee Falls #OregonExplored

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There were several photographers set up with tripods right in front of the water, and I didn't want to wait, so I found a spot just up a ways and from an angle - Gifford Pinchot National Forest #WashingtonExplored

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Eager and bright - Bonsai Akira #OregonExplored

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The wind was heavy with damp - Yaquina Head #OregonExplored

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There's always something left behind, a reminder of what was - Deschutes River State Recreation Area #OregonExplored

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These white oak frequently crowd together near the water, but my favorite trees are the lone trees - Swale Creek #WashingtonExplored

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Morning light - Lee Falls #OregonExplored

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I first photographed this tree in 2016. This time around, much of the surrounding ground had washed away - Cape Falcon #OregonExplored

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The perfect place to stop and consider how far we've come - Falls Creek Falls #WashingtonExplored

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Farmland stretched for miles around - Erratic Rock State Natural Site #OregonExplored

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They reminded me of rabbit ears - Palouse Falls #WashingtonExplored

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Many of the trees were much, much larger. But this one seemed the friendliest - Brookings #OregonExplored

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This might be my favorite color combination - Swale Creek #WashingtonExplored

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We descended a side trail for a view of the water above and the beach below - Blumenthal Falls #OregonExplored

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A rounded rise covered with trees and behind it another - Lost Lake #OregonExplored

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The curve of a trail gently rising - Galen McBee Airport Park #OregonExplored

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The clouds were soft as memory - Yellowstone #WyomingExplored

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