10 acres of lush beauty, filled with many Pacific Northwest plants, most notably of course rhododendrons…

Bandon, Oregon, is one of my favorite beaches in the state, filled to bursting with huge rock features; the most impressive of which is the surreal, unreal beauty of Face Rock…

The most interesting aspect of the sandstone cliffs is how the water and wind erode the rock into bizarre, alien shapes most succinctly described as “like Swiss cheese”…

In early February 2017, on a very cold, wet winter's day, I hiked around the Champoeg State Heritage Area outside of Butteville, Oregon. Champoeg (pronounced like "shampooey") was an important settlement in the 19th century and in 1843 formed an early regional government, a key step for the area eventually becoming a state. Today the former townsite is merely a field, but the surrounding 600 or so acres have become a park with forested trails easing along the Willamette River....