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'‘Snow caps for a winter nap.” Restrooms at the White River West Sno-Park in the Mt. Hood National Forest.

A touch of snow on the branches of trees surrounding Sahale Falls in the Mt. Hood National Forest.

A Western White Trillium blooms under the cover of some ferns in the Wildwood Recreation Area near Welches.

Sunlight pokes through on the shore on an afternoon with marine fog rolling in the breeze north of Florence.

Hieroglyphic carvings on a rock in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns in Harney County.

A hidden, possibly a seasonal waterfall, is uncovered and surrounded by blackened trees along the Clackamas River Highway 224 outside of Estacada.

New green life contrasts with the blackened tree stump burnt in the Riverside Fire along the Clackamas River. The long-closed Highway 224 near Estacada has reopened after the September 2020 wildfire.

In late July 2021, a Juniper stump sits in the cracked mud in the Prineville Reservoir. Drought has left this, and many other bodies of water in Eastern Oregon very low.

A beam of sunlight pokes through the clouds behind the silhouette of a horse next to the BLM Horse Corals outside of Hines.

Inside the center of the Peter French Round Barn in Harney County. It is the last round barn remanent from early ranching days in the area.

The trail winds through the Crack in the Ground trail left when a section of the Four Craters Lava Bed near Christmas Valley split apart. The trail and lava beds are part of a wilderness study area.

Fort Rock under a cloudless sky. The rim of a former volcano is in the northern part of Lake County.

A little humorous and very powerful at the same time, a sign on the back of this tree says it is the Oregon Tittie Tree. Hundreds of bras and bikini tops are in the branches honoring those women who have battled breast cancer. The tree is along Oregon Highway 31 near Silver Lake.

Trillium flower (Trillium grandiflorum) in the middle of ferns growing on a bank near Siletz Bay south of Lincoln City.

A tree grows on the top of a lava rock on the Trail of the Molten Rock at the Lava Lands near Sunriver, Oregon. The lands are part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument in central Oregon.

A walker takes an afternoon stroll on a sandbar at the mouth of Siletz Bay in Lincoln City as storm clouds move in.