Mystical perception
Sovereign realities
Unit of value
Ebullient enchantment emerges and vibrates to antediluvian echoes. Pride of place is embodied in the magical solitude of the winter landscape.
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” – John Locke
Integrating into
Habitat randomness
Emanation immersion
Environmental concerns are fully considered in the decisions and activities of the shadowself. You are always located in some relative position offering philosophical potential, even at the convenience store purchasing costly gasoline.
“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)” – Horace
Instantaneous rates
Differential integration
Quantity accumulation
In constant motion relative to energy sources, the night comes alive on the road.
“This is the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Existing reality
Objective knowledge
Philosophical alternatives
Dead tree skeletons punctuate the Gibbon Geyser Basin. Associated hydrogen sulfide gas yields the characteristic rotten egg odor of the active mudpot. Some things that inform consciousness exist beyond consciousness.
“But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals – mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.” – Winston Smith
Auxiliary cause
Vibrates from within
Capsizing meaning
Echoing observations among its own desolate ruins, an abandoned place exhibits a timeless allure. Imagination fills-in the provisional gaps.
“As time moves on these buildings get left behind, they have no families or owners to look after them any more and as time rolls on they are left for nature to claim back.” – Rebecca Lillith Bathory
Circumstantial factors
Implicational relationship
Conditioning consequence
A complete snow cover, coupled to sparsely distributed town lights, make a night walk in West Yellowstone an engaging aesthetic experience. Negotiating the intersection of contrasts in motion, new patterns appear that create each transitory moment.
“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Thin crust
Top component
Mechanical properties
The earth’s crust has spawned through igneous processes, which explains its diversity of material elements and appearances. In a formulation state, here the variety and phenomena of observable continental surface materials interacts with the atmosphere.
“Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.” – John McPhee
Solitary animal
Boreal forest
Select habitat
A quick stop for lunch while on the trip from Pocatello to West Yellowstone offered-up the first and only moose sighting of the journey. Nice to encounter such a prodigious animal in its natural surroundings.
“And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like!” – Rocket J. Squirrel
Options on accessing
Embedded variation
Research reality
A time and motion analysis of physical activity can be considered a component of an entire performance. Produced and preceded by internal feeling and alternating currents, different observers in distinct dynamic states perceive unique realities.
“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.” – John Muir
Dark red branches
Damp wetland soil
Dense thickets
In its dormant season, the shrubby twig color of red osier dogwood becomes a dominant landscape feature along certain flowing streams. The white snow background effectively isolates the attractive winter stems.
“Known as cansasa in Lakota, the inner bark was also used by the Lakota and other Native Americans as “traditional tobacco”, either by itself or in a mixture with other plant materials.” – Charles L. Cutler