I just can't keep away from the areas where we had forest fires this past summer. Without their needles the trees reveal a sculpture-like quality that I find endlessly fascinating. And just as the fires have stripped the land to its bare essentials, so I feel myself stripped of the hectic mindset that life in society has implanted in me. In a burn, all of the minerals tied up in the duff lying on the forest floor have been released. I feel such a sense of anticipation and hope, knowing that this Spring, these burns will be especially green!
Photo: Tree skeletons in the Hewlett Burn, Poudre Canyon, CO; January 26, 2013
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