Hope in New Growth

by Debby Pueschel

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Hope in New Growth

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Debby Pueschel

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Photograph - Photograph

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I rounded the curve on my drive down the mountain to go home yielded horrifying anguish...Yes...I KNEW the fires of 2021 in the Sequoia Mountains had been severe, yet, I had never envisioned the scarred and barren shells of trees on both sides of the General's Highway, the thoroughfare of the Giant Sequoias in California. What could have been a beautiful natural abstract view of flowing redwood trees, was now a mass of blackened skeletons tree trunks and branches

I stopped and wept. That's all I could do. Before me stood trees which had been growing for many years, thick trunks now dead. My eyes scanned sadly, the once adorable airy fernlike saplings -now bare twigs, which were some years old, yet not old enough to have to have given their lives to a fire. Oh how sad! Trees stumps, marked in blue by the Forest Service for removal, dotted the hillside. These wonderful trees, burned - gone - the green underbrush reduced to brown and blackened earth. Then my eye caught the new growth to the left of the screen...then to the beautiful blue skies with white clouds above the barren trees.

I saw HOPE...I knew the earth would regenerate once again. I looked around and saw grasses and foliage creeping up on the rocks to regain ownership on the barren earth. We will survive!

Featured in these groups:

*USA PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY 7-1-22
*VERTICAL IMAGES. 5-25-22
*NIKON FULL FRAME CAMERAS 5-20-22

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May 19th, 2022

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