Yesterday was first day in a long time where the wind wasn’t howling. We decided to take advantage of the calmer weather and take a nice morning walk at Fort Hill. It was just gorgeous with those beautiful clouds in the sky! (Click on blog link for other photo. )
Then I decided to edit the photo with a more dramatic tone. What do you think? Which one do you like better?
Impossible decision! Both are equally gorgeous but tell different stories.
And while the stone wall may look like a bit of stillness in the drama, evidently it’s very much “alive” :
From: March 19th, 2018 by Joe Rankin The Outside Story
“Animals of all types utilize stone walls — from foxes to chipmunks to salamanders. Cats and foxes use them as travel lanes, while the extra elevation could help them spot prey, or predators. When my friends at Northern Woodlands brought in their game cameras last fall, they had some great shots of a bobcat and a black bear on a stone wall. Yes, a black bear…
“While a single pile of rocks might attract a few chipmunks or white-footed mice, imagine that rodent-friendly habitat chained together for miles. Then think about the minks and snakes, the foxes and owls that prey on those rodents and you see how the effect is multiplied up the food chain. Stone walls can, literally, make our landscape come alive.”
https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/stone-walls