After the fog, reveal former fire
Filed Under (photos) by scott on 10-08-2009
The fog cleared on the Pinaleno Mts north of Wilcox, AZ to reveal the pillar of a burnt tree.
Pine cone spiral
Filed Under (photos) by scott on 03-08-2009
A friend and I were camping on Mt. Lemmon to escape the heat of the Tucson summer. We made the pine cone spiral to kill time and bemuse other campers in the coming days. It’s similar to the giant installations of Goldsworthy but without the massive funding or even a bit of planning.
I like to hope future campers, meaning of course, campers from the future landing in their massive RV equivalents of flying saucers, will go there and ponder what it could all mean when all it means is, “We had no electricity and this is what that lack has wrought.”
On a related thought…across the way, there was a guy who not only brought all the kids, vehicles, tents, shelters, stoves, generators, and lights one might have in or around one’s home, he also built a kind of home made RV on top of a large flat trailer. It folded out to become a shanty of sorts. Impressive and asinine at the same time. Naturally, he brought an ATV for his kids to ride and when we heard the Windows shutdown sound at 11 PM at night it made us laugh hysterically. Noiseaholics are tedious. Silentophobics are more tedious.
We woke up one morning to a lovely sunrise and gun shots. You gotta love people…because it’s illegal to shoot them unless you’re in the military.
Don’t be afraid of nature. The worst nature can do is kill you and something is going to kill you anyway. Don’t worry about it! Go out and hug a tree today! Listen to a bird! Smell the forest! Roll around in the dirt and eat bugs in your food. You’ll be better off for it.
