Gryphon
Sometimes looking at these trees is a little like looking at big, puffy clouds. The type where you point and say, "Look at the..." This one is that way. The elements are there, but they are kind of elusive.
It complicates things that this is the subspecies "north americanus", i.e. bald eagle and mountain lion. The context would be better if it were on Eagle Peak in the distance.
It could be worse...one of the first people to see a grove of bristlecone thought he was looking at a herd of elk mingling in a grove of young pine.
Individual as they are, I should point out that these trees remain unnamed. Nor do I ever have any desire to attach names to them. My impressions are fluid and impermanent and spring from a deeply layered respect and affection, even reverence, for their very existence in a wild, untrammeled setting. Nameless since the end of the Pleistocene, they should remain that way.
I understand the human compulsion and need, but to me naming something wild and free in nature usually indicates a relationship similar to that which a dog has with a hydrant.
Gryphon
Sometimes looking at these trees is a little like looking at big, puffy clouds. The type where you point and say, "Look at the..." This one is that way. The elements are there, but they are kind of elusive.
It complicates things that this is the subspecies "north americanus", i.e. bald eagle and mountain lion. The context would be better if it were on Eagle Peak in the distance.
It could be worse...one of the first people to see a grove of bristlecone thought he was looking at a herd of elk mingling in a grove of young pine.
Individual as they are, I should point out that these trees remain unnamed. Nor do I ever have any desire to attach names to them. My impressions are fluid and impermanent and spring from a deeply layered respect and affection, even reverence, for their very existence in a wild, untrammeled setting. Nameless since the end of the Pleistocene, they should remain that way.
I understand the human compulsion and need, but to me naming something wild and free in nature usually indicates a relationship similar to that which a dog has with a hydrant.