Silver Valley

The West coast of Canada is so close we can smell it. Did a two day Farm Stay before entering Vancouver.

A "break the morning hike" turned into an unexpected gem. The trees in Golden Ears Park made me think of Hermann Hesse words in Wandering. He so vividly captures the image of these beautiful trees.

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone.

They are like lonely persons.

Not like hermits, but like great, solitary men. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves.

Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree.”Read more