At Ten Mile Creek within Kings Canyon National Park, the range of color and the softness of the forest invite you to explore and get their good tidings. The lakes, the streams, and the rivers are all cleansing forms of energy to refresh and renew the body and soul.
When you consider the forest and its Sequoias, it hosts an endless variety of life. It is the place to return to peace and centeredness that reminds me that I am alive. That life is not just about work and personal success, but this is what it is to return to balance. To experience the wilderness is to experience the forests and what it brings to the soul.
Sometimes the height of the trees leads your view upward. And the contrast of hues and textures leaves so much open for the imagination. The growth and population of pines in the area of Zumwalt Meadows are quite distinct in richness and quality.
There is a natural and contemplative beauty to Yosemite. From place to place throughout the Yosemite wilderness you come upon different moods and places of interest. Here I pause for a photo along a trail on the South Rim of the valley.
Being high enough among the clouds leaves you to wonder what the forest will reveal. The clouds mask and veil the depth of the wilderness to bring a sense of mystique only characteristic of the Sierra.
The valley floor of Yosemite this day was filled with exhilaration. The defected light coming through the canopy of the forest created unique lighting conditions that were quite a treat. While what I saw made perfect sense, the mist burning off the forest floor brought about a natural behavior rarely seen.
The brush on and around Mt Emma nearer to the Mojave Desert gives you a softer contrast to the trail before you. On this route, the dust, mud, and dirt is often accentuated by the delicate and fragile plant life.
A place to withdraw and contemplate, the soft Winter of the lower Sierra offers solace and a new awakening. Here the Winter forest floor at the base of Mt Hillyer keeps your senses piqued.
There’s just that time of day when everything of color comes together. A burst of color bounces off surfaces in all directions. The colors saturated and pure offer warmth and refuge.
The knife’s edge of a leaf on this tree within the San Gabriel mountains looks more imposing than it really is. While coming back to trek this path a number of times, this overhanging limb remained in place season after season.
With the shade and sunlight, the colors of Spring shift with the breeze only to pull on the imagination. Here in Sequoia National Park, the forest brings out shades of color that bring you in closer.
The sunburst here in the Western sky shows an unavoidable change. From minute to minute and hour to hour, there’s a difference in the quality of the wilderness.
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