So peardg posted this photo she took the other day. She was in the Juan de Fuca park in that deep and lovely old growth forest.  The night she came back, I got to see the original photos and, of course, they were evocative – but this one, now she has played with it, now it tells a truth that I sometimes get to experience directly (truth: below the fold if you’re interested).

When my brain veers left, my perception shifts. It usually involves all my senses in some way, but this picture is the best visual representation of what the forest is like for me when my brain jumps sideways.  There is almost always sound involved (I can’t remember a time when there was not anyway) and of course I can’t provide that here but the picture…yes, that’s it almost exactly. Just imagine it moving gracefully around you, dancing almost, and that your skin can feel the colours, and that you know what the trails of light mean.

The large sized picture is here.

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