Went to the lake with Katy. I'll probably never live anywhere as beautiful as this again. This place is just so green and lush and burgeoning with life everywhere you look. The ground and the tree trunks are often the same color green because a layer of moss has grown over them and made them a seamless green carpet. The large trees that have died and fallen were left in place and the forest has overtaken them with moss and lichen so completely that the log is nothing more than a large hump in the green ground. It feels like you're walking on 12" of sponge because the ground under you is nothing but layers of mulch under moss. Everything around you seems more interconnected than anywhere else I've been. You feel as though you are standing within a giant organism. No wonder the hippies loved it out here. You really do see the Earth as an organism here.
I'll always love my time here.
