WOODLAND VESPERS
This is another sandstone waterfall at the head of a small stream that winds its way to the Missouri River about one mile away. As the sun set, I was looking south, and a line of distant trees in the background was emblazoned with a lemon-coral light. The patterns of interlaced branches backlit by an opalescent sky reminded me of stained glass windows. In the foreground, cool lavender shadows revealed woodland phlox in an otherworldly shade of periwinkle blue, glossy Mayapple umbrellas, delicate ferns and mosses. Paw paw trees are unfolding their lacquered chartreuse leaves and in the distance a fuchsia haze of redbuds floats overhead and the damp smell of morels lingers underfoot. |
