Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper and Phyllis’s appreciation for a priceless hour of therapy on the trails at the Oakwood University Wildlife Area.
A rare place where meddling humans have been prevented from interfering with old things naturally getting old, demonstrating the grand cycle that encompasses all things.
Marking where a big chunk of the most recent glacier broke off and melted to create a watery depression, the Oakwood acres have miraculously been protected to enable great trees to grow to old age and to then produce collapsing remains in an impressive show of lives well lived and with the message that something naturally useful will be made of those remains because that’s the way it happens with the trees and to everything in the magnificent Oakwood preserve, including its visitors.
Photo by Bill Stokes