The Persistence of Life

Hiking through the mountains one summer day I came across this subtle display of jagged edges and variegated colour.  On such mountain walls plant life somehow germinates, trees grow, birds build their nests, and goats and deer clamber up and down. Trite observations for a native resident of British Columbia, perhaps, but as a prairie kid I continue to be amazed by such sights.

The whole world is, to me, very much alive’ – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things on – within them.” ~ Ansel Adams

Location: Squamish, British Columbia

Date: Summer 1990

Source: Pentax ME Super with Tamron Zoom lens, Kodachrome 64 slide film

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