Wow, this looks like a abstract painting. I've been to Bend many times, and there are so many interesting types of trees and wood there. Rocks too..and the coloured roads and sands etc.Amazing that a tree could have the blue colours etc. I like your photo a lot, and am glad you posted it...Verena

Congrats on an awesome picture...well done and thanks for sharing!

Oh I absolutely love this pic! As a child, my family would go on picnics in the Sisters area (which isn't far from Bend), in the Ponderosa Pine forests on the Eastern slope of the Cascade mountains. I'd pick up Ponderosa Pine bark pieces just like this and play with them, trying to fit them together as if they were jigsaw pieces. Memories aside, I also love this pic for the range of soft color and the interest inherent in it. This is a perfect "get to work" desktop for me.

I think I spent my first Thanksgiving away from home in Bend, while I was attending Pacific University in Forest Grove... I recall it was raining... Very interesting textures in your image, it does look like jigsaw puzzles.
mary

I've seen this kind of bark before on some ponderosa pines in the forests of South Dakota's Black Hills, mostly, and one behind my old building that I worked in for 40 years. I love all those natural shapes and colors as well, thinking how cool it would be to peel bark like this from an already felled tree, adhere it to a sheet of hardwood, fashion it into a large table, and then flood it with a hard acrylic. Imagine the conversation starter a dining room table like that would be? I just realized that you started here at Caedes the same month I did, April of 2006 (my bio says otherwise but I had to dump my entire gallery and leave for half a year, then come back under a new site name after running afoul of a woman on this site who is obviously insane... she's still here, by the way, so keep your head down ;o), and that you have 255 pages of art submitted. Holy Mackinoly, Bruce! You must qualify for an award for persistence as well as cool stuff. [oD I like to occasionally go back through a member's gallery and find gems I hadn't seen before, so that's why I'm back here in your archives.

-Nik