Cypress Stained Glass
The stories of the Everglades are as vast and as flowing as the River of Grass itself; limitless. But, sometimes, the best stories are found on a narrow road to a familiar place, sunset streaming through your favorite pahayokee cypress domes, and an encounter with one of the majestic creatures that calls this place home. The details of this sublime place are really in what makes its stories shine, like sunstars in the stained glass background of cypress trees. My Thanksgiving visit to Everglades National Park was typical in how the story unfolded but the adventure and the majesty of the place is in appreciating its subtleties and its grandeur, all at the same time. The Everglades is the most atypical of all of our National Parks; when you are here, you aren’t here for mountains and canyons and big trees and unending landscapes of stone, but you are here for the interplay of water, grass, the sun, the sky, and the creatures that live here. That’s the story of this vista: a brief moment in time as the sun sparks behind a cypress branch and a barred owl, who decided to land here and spend some time here, making for a gorgeous coincidence. This is a story of happenstance and a symphony of nature, all at once. That is what the Everglades is.
Cypress Stained Glass
The stories of the Everglades are as vast and as flowing as the River of Grass itself; limitless. But, sometimes, the best stories are found on a narrow road to a familiar place, sunset streaming through your favorite pahayokee cypress domes, and an encounter with one of the majestic creatures that calls this place home. The details of this sublime place are really in what makes its stories shine, like sunstars in the stained glass background of cypress trees. My Thanksgiving visit to Everglades National Park was typical in how the story unfolded but the adventure and the majesty of the place is in appreciating its subtleties and its grandeur, all at the same time. The Everglades is the most atypical of all of our National Parks; when you are here, you aren’t here for mountains and canyons and big trees and unending landscapes of stone, but you are here for the interplay of water, grass, the sun, the sky, and the creatures that live here. That’s the story of this vista: a brief moment in time as the sun sparks behind a cypress branch and a barred owl, who decided to land here and spend some time here, making for a gorgeous coincidence. This is a story of happenstance and a symphony of nature, all at once. That is what the Everglades is.