Witnessing moments in nature when something is clearly at the end of it’s journey is always bitter sweet. Rather than focus on that which is sorrowful at the end of such natural cycles, I think to the sweeter moments when that cycle begins anew. To quote a great author and Transcendentalist:
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Fallen - Yosemite National Park
Ah, some swamp “oil” – you have captured one of my favorite subjects here Jim. Love the quote.