apis & palmoxylon
ink on petrified palm wood. fossil is an extinct genus found along the gulf coast. fossil record indicates apis has been around for about 56 million years.
Crown Point view from Chanticleer Point, Oregon. This is a promontory viewpoint along the Columbia River Gorge where parents go to force their kids to look at something far away and find it fascinating or have their ipad taken away.
“As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden