1 December 2005

Taking a break from the inner blessings and TLM series of recent weeks for photos on a walk in Torreya State Park, Florida. Many of the files are over 200KB and the pictures run right off my computer screen. The large trees and myriad forms of the forest canopy are diminished in small photos. You need to see the nuts on far branches, needles of rare pines, and sharp points of the palm leaves. The Apalachicola River (which comes from Georgia under a different name) is gradually eroding the park banks and bluffs as it tears around a bend. A spring from Weeping Ridge emerges as a waterfall paralleled by the long exposed root of a tree. It is a precious place and home to the endangered Torreya trees.