Water birch bark and re-purposed steel wall light

I found this piece of water birch bark along a remote section of the Deschutes river a few months ago. While I had to hollow out the decayed inner wood, the bark was left pretty well intact. Then it was off to find the perfect piece of metal to compliment the colors and aged look of the bark. Courtesy of a local scrap metal yard and their endless piles of rusting metal I found that ideal piece. A little finagling here and there and the end result was this...

Assorted photos from the California trip

I took a lot of photos on my trip down south. So many in fact, I nearly ran out of space on my memory cards. Didn't quite realize how fast 21MP fills up a card!
The petroglyphs I photographed were created by the Modoc Indians and were located at the edge of a larger, ancient Tule Lake. It's here where they would paddle up in a boat, having access to the soft, sandstone at the lake's shore and start carving away.  Graffiti circa 1,500 years ago.

The Sutter Buttes, the smallest mountain range in the world.