When I’m in the Columbia River Gorge I feel a deep sense of calm that I haven’t found anywhere else. It seems to emanate from the rocks and trees and familiar vistas. Perhaps I’m like a migratory bird drawn by some biological magnet to return to the same tree year after year.

Seattle Space Needle

Pop Up

Sea Food Market &

Warehouse

Astoria Oregon

Basalt Columns

Columbia River Gorge

Near Lyle, Washington

Columbia River

At Hood River

Blue Moon/Powerlines

The Dalles, Oregon

2020

Little League

White Salmon

Washington

A striking element of the Pacific North West is the contrast between the dry grasslands and high desert east of the Cascade Mountain

Range and the temperate rain forest that thrives to its West

Columbia Gorge

from “The Hook” Hood River, Oregon

Calder’s

The Eagle

Olympic Sculpture Park

The Diving Boards

Green Lake Park

Seattle

Scenes from the fair

Grand Stands

Hood River Co. Fair

Wind-Felled Matriarchs

near Mosier, Oregon

Seattle Public Library

Rem Koolhaas

Architect

“Cyclops”

Astoria Oregon

Burnt Bark

near Cloud Cap

Mt. Hood

Oregon

This old building along Commerce Street predates the railroad as does its neighbor which was once a Chinese grocery

Spencer Butte

Eugene Oregon

Blue Shadow

The Dalles, Oregon

The Sanctuary &

F5 Tower

5th Avenue

Seattle

Windswept meadows along the Gorge in Mosier, Oregon

Scrub Oak Bark

Seattle

Scenes

Shipwreck

Near Astoria Oregon

Mosier Market

has seen some recent improvements but you can still purchase live bait

Basalt

Mosier Tunnels

Recreation

The Dalles, Oregon

Farther East along the Columbia

Astoria Bridge

Astoria Oregon

Kerry Park

Queen Anne

Spare Parts

Mosier, Oregon

Columbia River

From the Syncline

Gravel Separator

Mosier, Oregon

Fire Sculpted Chimney Tree

Kings Canyon/Giant Sequoia National Park

The trees sculpted by their ecosystems

Rain Soaked & Broken

Ecola State Park

Mt. Hood

with power lines

White Salmon

Washington

Mt Adams

from the road to Troutlake Washington

Wake

Richard Serra

“Blue Night Bridge”

Astoria Bridge approach with moon

Sun Shining Through after a storm

Ecola State Park

Wooden Train Trestle

Independence

Oregon

“Giants Interlocking”

a family of Evergreens near Astoria, Oregon

Out West