Resilience
Resilience: "adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma or stress". This Jeffrey Pine tree survived for more than 100 years at over 8,000' fully-exposed to extreme cold, heat, drought and prevailing wind that contorted its shape; it was finally killed by the great drought of 1976.
My photo on a very clear day on top of Sentinel Dome looking NE over the glaciated U-Shaped Yosemite Valley (Porcupine Creek), California, USA; Half Dome Peak on the right, North Dome on the left and multiple granite mountains beyond.
Straying from my usual Transport theme, but this view deserves an airing for the inspiration of this tree's survival and the sheer beauty of the Yosemite area landscape. Once visited, never forgotten.
This visit in June 1975, well before the crowds, reservation systems and pollution haze of later years.
Photoshopped only to remove the purple tinge (purple haze?) that plagues many of my slides from this era.
Pentax ME, Epson V500 scan of 35mm Kodachrome slide.
Resilience
Resilience: "adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma or stress". This Jeffrey Pine tree survived for more than 100 years at over 8,000' fully-exposed to extreme cold, heat, drought and prevailing wind that contorted its shape; it was finally killed by the great drought of 1976.
My photo on a very clear day on top of Sentinel Dome looking NE over the glaciated U-Shaped Yosemite Valley (Porcupine Creek), California, USA; Half Dome Peak on the right, North Dome on the left and multiple granite mountains beyond.
Straying from my usual Transport theme, but this view deserves an airing for the inspiration of this tree's survival and the sheer beauty of the Yosemite area landscape. Once visited, never forgotten.
This visit in June 1975, well before the crowds, reservation systems and pollution haze of later years.
Photoshopped only to remove the purple tinge (purple haze?) that plagues many of my slides from this era.
Pentax ME, Epson V500 scan of 35mm Kodachrome slide.