The last of the winters rain gratefully spills along the gulleys of the High Sierra.
It is too soon though.
The last rains fell nearly eight weeks ago and the lower reaches are already bereft of water.
It’s been many years since the last truly wet winter and one sees this throughout the ecology.
The streams run dry and are flanked by the dessicated and dead carcasses of the great trees.
Everywhere there is transformation, but even in the face of anthropocene change, there is no resistance.
This is the grace of pure being which knows not to resist the irresistible.
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