Photos from Muir Woods

I had the opportunity to visit Muir Woods last weekend. It was a fun hike, and helped me simplify my approach to this exercise. I realized that it wasn't necessary to pull the wool over the eyes of today's jaded youth to get them to enjoy the idea of Muir Woods or of green spaces in general. In fact, they're probably expecting something like that, to be fed some over-hyped yet subversive messaging by a ham-fisted advertising agency. I think that the nature of nature is enough of an appeal on its own, augmented by the mythology of the Solstice itself. From an aesthetic and storytelling standpoint, a very organically (forgive the pun) developed message is almost inevitable.