Daylight outdoor photo of a trail at lower left that curves out of sight around a standing tree stump. The trail itself is dappled in shadow, and a dusky orange color from the pine trees needles on the ground. Next to the trail across the entire lower right is a solid bedding of native sword ferns. They are shaded and dark green. Above at the ferns is a tall screening growth of understory brush full of green leaves, some shaded, others glowing green in the sunlight. Above the standing tree stumps, and brush are the splatter out leaves of vine maple trees, catching all the light and making the leaves glow brilliant green. Far above and behind the maple leaves are the darkly shaded tops of tall pine trees in the background at the top.

Suddenly everything was emerald colored. Today's extended hike was VERY hot in places, but in the forest, it was magic. #🟩 #hiking #trail #PNW #green #outdoors #nature #forest #stopwildfires #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #📷 #🥾 #itshotout #PDX #Stunday #freshpixels #scape #landscape