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Hand of Man, Hand of God:
The Big Thicket of Texas

  

Big Thicket, photo by Sherry Justus
Reflections are a photographer’s meat and potatoes. They provide essential building blocks of imagery. They often deliver both beauty and mystery, conjoined, on a silver platter. The Big Thicket of Texas includes a preserve that protects part of its beauty. The Thicket guards its mysteries, among them that it is a rich biological stew that mingling ingredients from three distinct biotic regions. Here—and only here—(per the Big Thicket National Preserve) the Eastern bluebird arcs in flight above the darting roadrunner.
Big Thicket, photo by Sherry Justus

Big Thicket, photo by Sherry Justus

The paths of plants, animals and humans crisscross, their multiple impressions layering the landscape. Taken as a whole, the thicket is a collage of habitation, a living kaleidoscope whose patterns are ever changing. This essay captures a few days’ time in the life eternal of the Big Thicket, freezing the pattern so one might pause at the intersection where Beauty meets Mystery.

 

 Big Thicket, photo by Sherry Justus

 

 

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