Bolt Creek Stump, 2024, varnished watercolor on torn paper, 46 x 36 in. / 116.84 x 91.44 cm.

Bolt Creek Stump, Suze Woolf, 2024, varnished watercolor on torn paper, 46 x 36 in. / 116.84 x 91.44 cm.

Beckler River Road, Washington. The Bolt Creek Fire in 2022 closed US Highway 2 for a time. A year later, at the junction of the Beckler River Road and US 2, I saw a "grove" of cedar-like stumps that were probably logged more than 100-150 years ago. On some you could even still see the steps cut in the sides for the sawyers to use a two-man saw.