Black Forest/White Snow

After a historic season of fire across the western United States, winter snows have begun to fall. The cycle begins again. Fire. Water. Growth. Death. Fire. For millennia fire has been a part of the forest. Sometimes with a gentle hand, sometimes with an apocalyptic blow torch. As you may know, we have a personal relationship with fire. (If you didn’t know - scroll through the journal or look at the Land of Fire Gallery). We have seen things others don’t get to. Although we are no longer on the front lines during the summer, there are still many stories to tell after the fire is over. With the winter snows, comes another story: the arrival of water. We journeyed out to one of this year’s fires as the first snow began to lay down a carpet of white over the black vegetation and the scarred soils. We hope you find this visual story interesting as you contemplate another northern hemisphere winter or the beginning of a southern hemisphere fire season.

Log V

Black Pines

Snow Cone

Charred Leaf

Black needle snow

White on black pine

Manzanita and snow spicules

Snow branch

Needles, snow and rock

White path through the black