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This is not the usual dusk of early evening but a
twilight cast over the forest by dark overhead
skies although the clouds have been exhausted
and rain no longer falls. Yet despite the gloom
of the atmosphere a typical light is cast throughout
the forest from a sky bending its protective roof
of daytime illumination so like that of a clear sky
enriching the landscape and nurturing the forest's
wildflowers, seen as the orange jewelweed orchids
lean over the creek in the forested ravine, a
richness of texture and colour relieving the early
gloaming. The rain-swollen creek rushes headlong
downstream, mesmerizing in its foaming billows
music to our ears, capturing our eyes and then an
apparition of wide blue feathers rises and coasts on
the wind as a Great Blue Heron crests the forest
canopy to settle on the crown of an unseen giant.
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