sticks

Submitted by Joel on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 11:25am.
sticks
the pale skeletal trees on the far slope are like standing corpses in a morbid sort of way, probably killed almost instantly by the heat but somehow spared from the screaming winds that would have knocked down everything else in the path of the pyroclastic clouds. they testify to the incredible event they witnessed, and to the capricious whims of nature.