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Perpetually Awestruck

Sequoia National Park, CA

05-16-2016

 

Processed: 03/11/22

 

I understand a lot of Sequoia's trees were destroyed in this past year's fires, but I seem to remember reading that this area, along the "Big Trees Trail" wasn't harmed. This was the scene of one of my best cosmic epiphanies, when I truly felt connected to God and the Cosmos.

 

If there had been a deer poking his head from between a couple of trees, this would be a perfect photo, but it's pretty much pretty perfect as it is. I left the trail for a bit (don't tell the forest service) and wandered, as is my wont, into a place with no "road less traveled" cause there was no road.

 

An overturned tree, death. A mossy rock, life. Some new growth in the clearing, rebirth.

My last fill at the gas station this week at $5.79 a gallon is putting me off long trips right now, but I really want to go back to Sequoia this Spring.

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Uploaded on March 11, 2022
Taken on May 16, 2016