Nehalem river estuary looking north towards Neahkahnie Mountain.

Few places are more fascinating than the edges of continents where sea, land, and sky collide. Minutes before the photograph was taken, shortly before sun set, a fisherman, aided by a friend and his net, landed a seventeen-pound salmon on the dock. His memory of that day will likely be totally encapsulated in the climax of the catch. Yet prior to the catch he had been immersed in an extraordinary setting, imperceptibly evolving around him over the course of the entire day. I suspect such experiences are recorded in the mind below memory, unconsciously retrievable combinations of feelings and emotions. I imagine it as a metamorphosis of the mind linked to atmosphere and landscape, weather and shadows, occurring continuously minute-to-minute, day-by-day, year-to-year, for the remainder of our lives.