Extreme weather baptizes and washes us clean of the stresses and ego-concerns of life in society.

 

I took this shot on the most challenging day I've ever spent photographing in the outdoors.  The clouds really let loose, and it poured all day long.  I had trouble keeping the camera dry, and got water inside the monitor screen, damaging it for a week afterwards.  But the day was amazing!  Like John Muir, I felt like I was being baptized in the storm, washed clean of the stresses and ego-concerns of life in society.  On the way back to the campground, I saw a grizzly bear in the distance, but my camera was much too wet by then to be usable.  What memories!

Photo: Wild Buckwheat flowers and Grinnell Lake on a rainy day; Glacier National Park, MT; August 2, 2013

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