EAGLE CAP, Northside [ click photo for next . . . ]

EAGLE CAP, Northside w/ Whitebark Pines (Pinus albicaulis),
end of August aspect. This is the center of the high Wallowas
"neve" or snow zone. Of interest here is the way the Wallowas
make their own weather. The orographic or "mountain lift" of
southwesterly mositure-laden air masses in the winter months
makes for radical snowpack depth differences in relatively short
distances. Averages, in round numbers, are: about 2 meters
of snow in Halfway; six meters in Cornucopia; 12 meters, here,
where this photo was made, so an increase by a factor of six
from Halfway in a distance, as the crow flies, of just 37 km!
With Climate Change, these are the numbers to watch, and they
are in steep decline.

Eagle Cap Wilderness.

TWO SIDES OF ONE MOVEMENT

Simple and complex, complex and simple,
two sides of one movement.
Between hymn and fugue,
Music spans its arch from one voice
to the diversity of the intricate braid;
Between ray flower and the composite disk,
the Sunflower turns its head contrary
to the turnings of the whole living Earth.

MOUNTAIN PATH

As two learn to walk
together as one,

one of their most primal of fears
is that they might somehow,

by some accident, be separated—
perhaps irreversibly.

That is why Love seeks to protect
every step Freedom makes.

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