Head of Jack Creek erases life's problems

It'd been four years since we last visited the beautiful Head of Jack Creek (near Camp Sherman in central Oregon).

We shouldn't have waited so long. After contemplating the spring-fed waters for a few minutes, Laurel said, "I wish I could bottle a vision of this place and drink it whenever I feel bad."

So true.

Looking at the photos I took that day, to choose my favorites, was almost as moving as being there.

Nature...the natural healer of so much that ails us.

Being spring-fed, the almost constant water flow allows for wonderful low-level growth.

 

Vegetation growing in shallow water produces impressionistic images.

I wanted to pick this up and plunk it in our back yard, so I could look at it all the time. (Or rather, copy it, so others could still enjoy it.)

First I think, "This is like a Japanese garden." Then, more correctly, "No, a Japanese garden is like this."

Patterns of twigs in reflective water.

Wooden reflections.

En-earthened roots produce pleasant pools.

Just beyond the springs, the B & B Complex fire damage is painfully visible.

But life is returning. On our walk to the Head of Jack Creek, lots of small Ponderosa seedlings were evident in fire-damaged areas.

We had to leave eventually. But the Head of Jack Creek doesn't leave you, once you've made friends with it.

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One of my favorite camping memories was on Jack Creek when my now almost 43 year old child was an infant, and we tent camped in a place that they no longer allow camping (downstream from where the horse camp was the last time I was there but before it was there). Lovely wild flowers, wonderful, peaceful creek as your photos show.