Trip to the North coast and thereabouts......

.....a lovely outing - the coast was about 25-degrees cooler than the valley.

Mossy Creek Pottery...........

......a ceramics wonderland tucked away up a secluded road off the coastal 101 highway just south of Lincoln City, Oregon.  The work of 40 ceramic artists are shown in the gallery.

Taft Beach.............

......Lincoln City Oregon.

Beating the Heat......

....at the beach.  40-degree difference between here and the valley.

Cape Lookout...........

......is so peculiar in that over the years I've gone there......I have always found works of art on the spit -- works of some unknown artist(s) that seem shamanic in origin.   The two above were found Monday when I visited - about a mile or so up the 5-mile spit.

And always rock totems looking to sea......this from several years ago.

Mhm....and this, Raven Totem was the first....back in 2005.  I photoshopped the raven in, but all the rest was as found miles down the beach.

A bit of mystery, a bit of magic -- something sorely needed in the world today.  Thank you to the unknown artists.

Gull................

..........surfing the wild blue Pacific.

A MOST Happy............

find on the beach this past weekend....was a paleontological persistence of long dormant fossils in the Yaquina Formation (22-25 millions years old).  

Yaquina Head........................

.........Lighthouse. 

Carved Salmon....................

.............at Neskowin.  MMmmmmmm...around 12 feet long carved from cedar.  Artist is Rich Sleboda.  Interesting story behind this carving that now graces the public parking lot at Neskowin and can be found HERE.