In the second in a series of posts about my epic summer vacation, I want to write about one of the most spectacular things I have seen in my life: The Redwoods.
Previous vacation post: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
But I’m going to steal words from John Steinbeck who makes me feel better for not being able to fully describe or photograph my experience:
“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It’s not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”
Traveling from Oregon to San Francisco, we stopped in two separate Redwood areas and had two separate experiences – which for the reasons quoted above I can’t successfully tell you about or show you ha!! – so I will give you some details on our itinerary so you can plan to see them for yourself:
, which is both critically and scientifically acclaimed.
. Did you know research shows trees behave like human families and human communities? Tree parents live with their children, communicating and supporting them. The trees in a undisturbed forest also function socially, helping the sick and warning each other of dangers.