The jungle is not just in the tropics. Its here in Virginia too, keeping
alive the summer residents we describe in daily VA Birds entries. Every time I
walk through local forests these days, I see images similar to those of forests
I have trod overseas: lush, overlapping green leaves on majestic trees, the
equally deep shade of morning & evening, the sheer, simple intensity of the
landscape, echoes of tropical bird calls.
That landscape has a thick green carpet, the verticality of brown tree trunks,
and indirect light emphasizing that green-upon-brown. Its especially lovely
earlier in the morning & later in the evening. In the morning the forest is
pierced serendipitously by misty spots of light and temperately noisy with
birdsounds; in the evening the light is clearer but soft (the sun tired from a
day or work?) & birdsounds more rare. It is a thing of peace & simplicity.
We share our local jungles of choice with neo-tropical birds which follow their
jungles of choice north & then south. Enjoy!
Peter Burke
Alexandria
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