This charred stick persists! But it has seen better days.

I have questions about this stick. First, who or what flipped it over? When I first took the picture of this find, I questioned the charring, but on a later leg of our hike, we found the original tree, which had clearly seen better days.

This charred stick had made quite the journey to its current location. Had rain, perhaps, flipped it over? The hill it’s slowly progressing down definitely has had evidence of flooding from the rains.

Sticks are mysterious, and this is part of the joy of photographing them.

This stick has been brought to you by this book. This book shares some similarities with the stick, as both the stick and the main character have had to deal with the consequences of wildfires… Disclaimer: I wrote this book.

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In places where wildfires are common, forests have adapted to needing fires to thrive. Some plants simply won’t germinate without these fires. Nature is a pretty amazing thing.