There’s really only one thing for me to talk about today, but it’s a big one.
THE TREEEEEEEEEEES.
Before I got to the foothills of the Sierra Neighvada, I passed through this forest where the trees are… well, something else. I said Los Ambeles was big; these are that for trees. They’re ENORMOUS. The tree in the middle of Hollow Shades was bigger, but there was only one of them, and these are way taller. Any single one of them is probably ten times the size of my house back home.
It kind of boggles the mind just how monstrously big they are. It takes a good twenty seconds to walk around one (which isn’t all that much, but it’s still just one tree). They’re so tall, they feel like the skyscrapers I saw in LA and Baltimare; I think I might’ve gotten a crick in my neck from looking up at them, trying to see the top. And I think they look taller than they are, because they don’t have any branches until about halfway up, so you don’t have anything to compare them to except the other tall trees, which kind of skews your judgement a bit.
On a side note, this makes it one of the easiest forests to get through that I’ve been in. Because the trees are so big, they need to be a ways apart from each other, and the ground’s pretty clear of plants. I had to push my way through the undergrowth in other forests, but here, there isn’t any undergrowth to push through. It’s like someone just dropped a bunch of giant trees in the middle of somepony’s yard.
This must be a tourist attraction, since I saw some other ponies around, taking pictures and stuff. They didn’t pay any attention to me, though, so I didn’t pay much attention to them. There are also some paths across the grass, “paved” with woodchips. Wonder if it’s a park and I missed the plaque, or if it’s just a place for people to come out to.
The trees: so utterly massive,
They sit there, looking like passive
Pillars so high
To hold up the sky.
They look eternally placid.
That last line’s terrible, but I wasn’t going to throw out the first four lines just because I couldn’t find something to rhyme with “massive”.