Meadows Flowers Waterfalls

The diversity of wildlife was a constant source of surprise, and we learned a lesson from the sun bathing alligators.

Linguini

The skin of boulders holds onto our touch and tucks rattlesnakes into the earth. Waterfalls pulled the blue of our veins to the near surface as our toes submerged to rocks steamed with glacier water.

A Bath in the Forest

For the last 15 years, I’ve been a city-dweller and I’ve started to feel semi-captive, a condition the naturalist John Muir described as “tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized.”