#297 – Where Mind Wanders

This scene is based on a remote lookout point in Oregon’s Mt. Hood National Forest, near the summit of Bull of the Woods Wilderness. The tower that once stood here was lost in the Bull Complex wildfire the following summer, but the quiet mood of this place remains. The fading light, the weathered lookout, the way the windswept pine leaned into the hush of evening, it all felt suspended in a kind of gentle farewell. In the distance, you can see the mountain. The journey to the top becomes more than a physical climb. It’s a space where thought slows, where the quiet allows the mind to reflect, reset, and begin again.