One of the nice things about going back to the same trails for more than a decade is that you take the same pictures at every season. This was part of the Desolation Trail yesterday:
And this was December:
The wheel of the year keeps on turning. But now it’s green, green, green, and the only white is ninebark and false Solomon’s seal.
I have to think of my favorite Cold Mountain quote:
“Over time, watching that happen again and again might make the years seem not such an awful linear progress but instead a looping and a return.”