'Great-Ancients', Bristlecone Pines - California USA

Of all the beauty and natural delights I have discovered in two visits

to the Pacific North West Coast of America, the bristelcone pines is

my favorite place. To see it virtually empty of people and still

blanketed with the final remnants of spring's snow in such glorious,

sunny conditions was a true privilege.

These trees are circa 4,000+ years old, a fact I find remarkable and

sobering for my own place in time. I'd been wanting to visit this

place for many years and was so pleased to have the lighting

conditions for photography on my one and only day's visit.

Amazing to think of the scores of generations that have been & gone while these grew. It must be very humbling to have stood in their presence. Wonderful detail. 

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