Okay, so it has been a while and I never really got off the ground with the blog idea. Recently I finished up a website for my parents to allow them to sell small tabletop christmas trees from Oregon on the internet - delivered to the doorstep. This has reawakened my interest in the on-line world and I thought I'd start throwing ideas onto this, a blog about what I see and what I like to do - geomorphology.

The site http://www.christmastrees4smallspaces.com is working well and the trees are beautiful. The hardest part was setting up the e-commerce part of the site. Hopefully urban dwellers will appreciate being able to purchase a real fresh-cut tree over the internet. They sent me a nice 30" Scotch Pine to test the process out.

Interestingly the pines are non-native but do well in the Oregon Coast ranges. The native firs make good Christmas trees with the Douglas firs making nice, bushy trees and the Grand (or white) firs forming more layered trees. However, the Noble firs (also non-native) are the trees most in demand. They are the slowest growing but require the least care, oddly enough.

The trees grow in a flat-lying stream valley at the foot of a prominent mountain front, likely formed along a north-south trending fault. Much of the local terrain is obscured by trees although logging has created a checkerboard of cleared areas. I took an aerial photograph and played with it for the site.