Decay

 

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)

 

 

Lone dead tree, Hood River Oregon

Lone dead tree, Hood River Oregon

 

 

The Angel Oak covered in ferns and moss, South Carolina   Rotting birch, Stony Swamp Trail, Ottawa, Ontario   Abandoned insect gall, Red Oak, Coppell, Texas   Sphagnum moss, Douglas Fir, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada   Mossy Ponderosa Pine, Yosemite National Park, California
                 
Ilwaco, Washington   Old cedar with burls, Noble Woods Park, Hillsboro OR   Mattheissen State Park, Illinois   Munch marks, Botanical Gardens, Singapore   Mattheissen State Park, Illinois
                 
Hardened sap, scarred Pinion branch, Grand Canyon, Arizona   Dried sap, Utah Juniper, Grand Canyon, Arizona   Old White Cedar trunk, Victoria Beach, BC, Canada   Stony Swamp Trail, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   The Angel Oak, South Carolina
                 
Polypore fungi, Ottawa, ON Canada   Pine Beetle galls, Elk Lake, Vancouver Island, BC   Insect gall, Rood Bridge Park, Hillsboro OR   Fungus on a large stump that returns every year, Kingston Ontario   Worm-wood, Ajijic, Mexico
                 
Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton OR   Epiphyte, Tad Sai waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos   Winter moss, Rood Bridge Park, Hillsboro OR   Tualatin Nature Park, Beaverton, OR   Denman Island, BC Canada
                 
“Filigree” - Version #4 - Coppell, Texas   Oak leaf, Coppell, Texas   Insects, over-ripened Papaya, Chapala, Mexico   Oak leaf, Coppell, Texas   Termite rot, Elizabeth Gardens, Manteo, North Carolina
                 
Tent caterpillars, Body Island, North Carolina   Eastern Cottonwood insect gall, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada     Insects mutate cells, forming small growths dotting an Oak leaf   Parasitic Mistletoe on Utah Juniper, Grand Canyon, Arizona
                 
Golden threads parasitic growth, Ajijic, Mexico   Parasitic Mistletoe on Foothills Pine, central California   Parasitic Mistletoe on Foothills Pine, central California   Costa Rica, Ceiba leaves   Large mushrooms, Kingston Ontario
                 
Mushrooms, Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton OR   Dead Juniper stump, Sedona Arizona   Multnomah Falls trees covered with moss and ferns, Columbia River Gorge, OR   Sauvie Island North Carolina, tent caterpillars   Mushrooms, Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton OR
                 
Avenue of the Giants, Hwy 101 CA   Oak leaf, Coppell, Texas   Fiddle-leaf Fig, East Coast Park, Singapore   Giant Sequoia stump, Grant Grove, Sequoia National Forest, CA   Sculptural, Yosemite National Park, CA

 

 

Ponderosa pine Redwood National Forest, CA
Ponderosa pine, Redwood National Forest, California

 

 

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