During a walk down one of the many hiking trails in the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, we came across another, steeper, less traveled path that led downward into this clearing. I’ll never forget the sense of peace and yet mystery, stillness, but the feeling of being accompanied by “something” we could not see but strongly perceived. It was unusually quiet; not even much of the winds blowing through the trees to which we were so accustomed. An occasional bird calling out, perhaps, but a tranquility, a place of repose, but not so much a place as a state of being in those woods and walking about as if we were on holy ground.
These were the moments in October 2022, one of which we kept in this picture. Another picture in our Etsy Shop taken that day is Trees – Untitled #89.