Diversity

The fog settled over the land and muted the sun until it resembling the moon at its current stage of fullness. Four turkeys ran to the feeder and then to another location. (Whatever gets into their small brains is a mystery.) The temperature hovered in the upper thirties. In a matter of a few days I left the beauty of this land, hiked in the snow of the Three Sisters Wilderness, mountain biked in the high desert of Central Oregon, and walked in the temperate rainforest along the McKenzie River. Truly a wonderful state. One hundred and twenty miles to Sisters in Central Oregon, 108 miles to the mountain trailhead... and I would have headed west I could be on the coast in a little over an hour.
It is good to be home and settle into this place.

Japanese Maple on a Foggy Morning

North and Middle Sisters on the Obsidian Trail, Three Sisters Wilderness

North Sister, Collier Cone and Obsidian Creek

Riding the trails at Maston (22 miles of trails!)

Deschutes River through Wildcat Canyon, Maston Trail Use Area

Along the McKenzie River Trail

Bubble Line at Koosah Falls

Reflection at Sahale Falls on the McKenzie River

Rainbow at Sahale Falls