Headed to Manzanita on the Oregon Coast for Christmas. Brought with me a crate I picked up from an estate sale from a defunct warehouse. Started following the directions and I'm pretty sure we're summoning something. No chanting in Latin, but we did have to decipher a dead language using wax imprints, so you know…
This is an old-growth Mission Manzanita (Xylococcus bicolor), with quite enormous velvety trunks. I love their hot-chocolate color. Photographed in February 2018.