365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Faerie Garden
Day 31: Scientist that I am, I am also a photographer. Sometimes you just have to push the analytical aside and simply admire the beauty. I'd come up for air after being intent on a particular white crust fungus for ten minutes when this scene caught my eye. I immediately thought of a village set high in a mountainous region, Tibet or the Andes perhaps, where grey rock towers above rough-hewn shelters and vegetation clings close to the ground in the desperate and only manner which will allow it to withstand harsh winds and biting-cold temperatures. People do live in such places, you know, without the benefits of electricity and running water and the other amenities we Westerners take for granted, and they have done so for thousands of years. On this day, however, the faeries or sprites who call this community home were either indoors or away at their business of hunting and gathering, following the course of their lives untouched by the artificial constructs of modern civilization. Time means nothing in such a timeless place as this: only now, only this moment.
Labels:
Cowlitz Wildlife Area,
faerie garden,
Mossyrock,
mushrooms
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