Paulina Lake, in the Newberry Caldera, Eastern Oregon photo JParadisi
Taking advantage of the beautiful fall weather we’re having in Oregon this year means a road trip, and we are in eastern Oregon this weekend. The geography is very different from Portland. Yesterday, we visited the Newberry Caldera and climbed the Big Obsidian Flow, a 1,300 year-old, outpouring of black, glass-like stone, valued by native communities for making arrowheads and knives. I saw a snake, warming itself in the last of the autumn sun.
JParadisi RN, OCN emeritus, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest. Julianna is a frequent contributor to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing as a blogger and illustrator.
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