Something eternal ...
Back in 1977, yours truly took a serious road trip to Colorado to check out a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. After attending said conference, the Four Corners Area beckoned as the vehicle I had was the VW Camper Bus, the best way, IMHO, to see America as this voyage took well over a month and encompassed thousands of miles before returning to CT. In doing the explore, encountering Aspen groves, a single organism consisting of hundreds to thousands of clone trees residing in finite spaces, remain forever etched in my mind because of the fluttering of their leaves, presenting to the viewer a silvery shimmer bordering on the magical. On an earlier trip, my wife and I experienced the grandeur of the redwoods on the coast of Northern California. Vast, remote, an open air cathedral for the ages, an environment encouraging one to walk in silence among entities thousands of years old residing in forests millions of years old, something most wondrous to behold. Being a designer and videographer who likes to walk, one amazing aspect of all tress is how they react to wind as the sound wind makes when moving through the canopy of leaves indirectly relates, to this writer, the work of Gustav Mahler as they too emote a sense of eternal timelessness like that of nature when wind makes it's presence known in the most amazing way possible.
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