Painting is just another way of keeping a diary ~Pablo Picasso

Monday, April 30, 2018

Creekside

These Oregon white oaks grow along the edge of Eightmile Creek, which is fed by a freshwater spring in the hills above the Dalles Mountain Ranch. The ranch, otherwise open fields and rolling hills, has occasional ribbons of trees running through it. I didn't realize that the creeks that feed these trees are fed by springs, but it makes sense because the rain here is seasonal and the creeks would run dry in the summer without the springs. 

3 comments:

Sketchbook Wandering said...

I love your Ribbons of Trees!!! Ah, the weather, the season...

John "By Stargoose And Hanglands" said...

Very strange-looking trees to my eye, but then we don't have any white oaks here as far as I'm aware.

Linda W. said...

Love that area! I don't think I'll make it there this year, though. Just spend a long weekend on the Southern Oregon coast instead.