Hike in a gorge
With friends
Light conversation interspersed with deep, quiet solitude
Salmon threading a river
Just spawned, die
White translucent decay contrasted with dark, green
forestlife
Trail
Mostly winding
Smooth dirt path sprinkled with sharp, cobbled shale
Amber brilliant gold dripping in strings each suspended from
shiny jewel-nodules
Fading leaves weaving branches into alternating stripes of
summergreen-autumnyellow…
Raucous falls of water sounding nearby entirely cloaked by
foreground vegetation
A wing of oversized lichen draped on a bough transforming the
tree into an angel
The halfway turnaround respite place: sitting on a nurse log
in the shade of firs whose limbs create webwork that fragments a cerulean sky
into glorious negative space sapphires; I want to pluck one, or swim in the
royal blue atmosphere, or nestle into the heavenward comfort of the tealblue.tealgreen
cathedral of trees
All blog images created & photographed by Jennifer J. Wilhoit unless otherwise noted. Please circulate images with photo credit: "©2016 JenniferJWilhoit/TEALarbor stories. AllRightsReserved."
