This month’s wallpaper is a little less abstracty than the ones I’ve been posting, but this is a fairly recent addition and one that I happen to like a lot.  I hope you do, too.

Kathy & I made a bit of a whirlwind visit to Ohio a few weeks ago – hard to believe it has been a month already – dang! – and on that trip we visited Beaver Creek State Park in Columbiana County, near where we lived before we relocated to North Carolina.

Unfortunately I don’t know the history of these trees, and even Google seems to be failing me, but I had forgotten them from previous visits.  They were obviously planted by someone many years ago, probably as an early reclamation project.  There are rows and rows of these trees throughout the park, and we spent some time walking around and I snapped a bunch of photos.  A thunderstorm had just passed through before we arrived, and while the rain saturated the greens, the sunshine made for some interesting shadows on the ground.  It also tended to make this a very contrasty scene, but I think the combination works well.  I tried to process it with a bit of a Velvia look and think it comes pretty close.  Hopefully you will be able to enjoy it for the month of August!