“Cascade”

Trailside stream along the Glynn Creek Trail.

“Lights”

Pre-dawn moonlight and lighthouse at Heceta Head.

Plenty of surf around Cape Perpetua this morning (this is about halfway between low & high tide) (cc: @jean)

Good grief, something went horribly wrong in Darktable when I recropped that last photo. Here’s the square crop for comparison. Still trying to figure out what the computer thinks it’s doing…

Just a little piece of beach agate on my desk. I think this turned out OK, though there’s still room to experiment with the lighting. (Edit: This is not my definition of OK! See next post…)

“Quiet”

A little bit of moss on a tree trunk

“Eugene Christmas”

Last year someone decorated a straggly little pine in our local park. This year the Parks department removed that tree as part of a fuel reduction effort, so the mystery decorator hung ornaments on one of the rhododendrons instead.

“Shiny”

People sometimes look at me funny when I’m down in the mud taking photos like this. I don’t really mind. My life is slow enough these days that I can afford to take some time & effort to appreciate the small beautiful things.

small mushroom, moss, oak leaf

“Rhododendron”

Just a pic I liked from this morning’s walk in the rain.

rhododendron leaf with water droplets

“Winter’s Nap”