The Daily Forest Report November 20, 2014 Crystal Cities

by nielskunze on November 20, 2014

(Time Was excerpt by Wishbone Ash from their 1972 album Argus)

It’s easy to spend nearly fifty years close to nature and think that surely you must have seen it all. But then nature manages to delight and surprise nevertheless.

At the very onset of the cold weather– nearly two weeks ago– there was a tiny skiff of snow to kick it off. Since then there has been no further precipitation. However, there has been an ongoing accumulation of crystals, crystals and more crystals!

Remember Superman’s home in the northern arctic? Well this is the crystal palace of the ‘Superman of the Faeries.’ How does nature go about creating such unlikely things?

Over the last dozen days or so, whatever moisture there is has been pulled from the air and crystallized into stunning formations. Complex crystal cities have formed everywhere!

Here, you can see the initial scaffolding being magically erected atop the brand new ice sheets where the river has begun to spill its banks.

The river is really outdoing itself, standing fully three feet above its seasonal banks, carving channels through its own frozen body.

Whole islands stand submerged in fields of ice.

Liquid sapphire pools both mock and beckon my warm-blooded sensibilities.

And unable to match the rising frequencies reverberating through the new crystal cities, Yaldabaoth– the demiurge– gets caught in his own underworld matrix…