Modern Nature
First and foremost I want to apologize for the awful writing errors in yesterday’s post. There usually ends up being a typo here or there in my ramblings, but yesterday was well beyond any typo. I have to admit that I was rushing when I wrote the text, but that’s not much an excuse for simply failing to read three measly sentences…I’ll avoid doing it again.
Here is a quick first image from my weekend adventure to Island Park, Idaho, and the surrounding area. This scene jumped out at me as having a strangely ‘modern’ feel to it…as much as there can be in the middle of absolutely nowhere. The big pine had somehow broken off about 10 or 12 feet above the ground and was capped with a season’s worth of fading snow. Although slightly closer, the prominent aspen on the left was the largest I’ve ever seen in both thickness and height. Interestingly, the vast majority of other aspens in this section were very unhealthy or had already died. Since aspens grow in groves connected underground via a network of roots, it seems to me that this fellow has been benefiting from the nutrients and groundwater not being used up by its surrounding cousins, as well as extra sunlight at their lack of coverage.
Love the bit whimsy this photo has. Wow, the pine on the right is 10-12ft high! The clouds I described yesterday were from a front that moved thru here Fri into Sat. Fri it was in the 70’s, Sat morning we woke up to cracks of lightning and thunder with heavy downpours, and of course was much cooler following. Saturday evening, the sunset was just catching the end of the cumulus clouds on their way east. Very beautiful.
The pine in the image is a bit deceiving because the bottom 3 feet are not visible. What appears as the foreground is really about 10 feet in front of the trees, so that doesn’t help the scale of thing either. Thanks for the follow-up on the weather, I thought they sounded like big spring thunderheads. We haven’t gotten any lightning yet this season, but it’ll show its face soon enough. We have tremendous electrical storms and I’ve been closer than I’d wished to a fair number of strikes. That’s one thing I don’t want to tangle with… Much appreciated, Diane.