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 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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