Here's a throwback for @czarbucks ... from that time 16 years ago when I went out into nature to take pictures.
This is Bent Creek Experimental Forest, near Asheville, North Carolina. Bent Creek is the oldest federal experimental forest east of the Mississippi. It's also where I said to my sister who took me there: "Oh look, it's a place for forest rangers with OCD. They number the trees so they can count them every morning."
Anyway, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, there's a good chance half of the trees are now gone. And sadly, with that shithead in the White House, there's a good chance half of the forest rangers are gone too.
