Cold shades
Natural resources
Penetrate deeply
Coping with adverse climatic conditions offers capacious experiential reward, as adventures of the spirit coincide with seasonal adjustment.
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” – Sinclair Lewis
Glossy ribbon
Always different
Meandering freely
A river, a mountain, and the solar star combine in an enchanting, shifting, vital embodiment of planetary existence as a self-correcting equilibrium.
“That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” – Hermann Hesse
Calm dawn
Near the boundaries
Water heat
Apparent symptoms of Yellowstone’s volcanic underbelly settle over the morning landscape. The next catastrophic eruption could occur at anytime.
“Heat and volcanic gases from slowly cooling magma rise and warm the dense salty water that occupies fractured rocks above the Yellowstone magma chamber.” – Jake Lowenstern
Existence coherence
Particular singularity
Away from crowds
Wilderness is an illusory romantic paradigm. Remnants of small undeveloped areas are still available for experience, although true wilderness is long gone.
“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.” – Leon Trotsky
Once again
Inevitably vital
Leave a mark
Over time, ample evidence appears in the “caldera” indicating stored heat and energy. Chemical elements present in geothermal mud renders the soil relatively acidic due to thermophile bacteria consuming sulfur and creating sulfuric acid, causing even further surrounding rock disaggregation.
“The park delivers big when it comes to providing visitors with views of these strange, mysterious, odd-smelling steaming vents and spouting features.” – Tori Peglar
Deeply textured
By all appearances
Splendiferously effulgent
Subjective perspective enlightens the appearance coherence of existential phenomena. The winter’s atmosphere is especially clear, etching light contours into memory plenums facilitating sympathetic awareness promulgation.
“The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise.” – Annie Dillard
Cold ways
Winter silence
Duration resolve
Repainting the landscape’s surface, the morning sun appears above the mountains, evoking a quite elegance and calm feeling of enchantment. Winter is filled with warm memories.
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs
Kicked up mist
Cloud of spray
Refraction dispersion
On a very cold and bright winter day, the trip to Shoshone Falls was highlighted by a natural optical phenomena, a polarized spectral arch hovering over the canyon. When perceptible, a rainbow follows the arc of a precise circle centered on the shadow of the observer’s head.
“Rainbows have a way of making the world seem right.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Moving water
Fascinating vitality
River embrace
Bodies of water, in all their many manifestations, remain places of fascination. Ever-changing and elusive, rivers are essential powerful dynamic cyclic systems that balance and regulate the Earth and its atmosphere.
“Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Confines potential
Realities and dreams
Mutually constitute
Snow serves to simplify an elegant winter panorama. Such an engaging landscape may be affirmed in virtue of two variant paradigms. One locates aesthetic quality as inherent in the extrinsic physical manifestation, while the other regards visual virtue as a mental construct.
“Is not the core of nature already inside the heart of human kind?” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe