[pct-l] A Trail Moment in Time (urban SoCal version)

[Postholer]

As the morning ozone laden marine layer yields to the acrid afternoon haze, 
resulting in a first stage smog alert, one can't help but notice the onset 
of triple digit temperatures enhanced by single digit humidities.

Surely the beautiful mountain forests falling as ash, heralded by billowing 
smoke over majestic hills, hints at seasonal change. How can one ignore the 
tourist enhanced traffic jam? Even the moths fluttering about the sodium 
street lights sense the oncoming season.

As I lean back onto the chill of the night time grass covered in a luxorious 
malathion dew and gaze with great effort through the haze and artificial 
light pollution I can't help but notice the noble celestial bodies 1 moon, 2 
planets and 67 aircraft in the glorious heavens above. A tear wells up as my 
emotional heart strings overload.

Watching all manner of creatures scurrying thoughtlessly into the road to 
avoid the encroaching fire and flames only to be mashed permanently into the 
asphalt by a never ending river of traffic causes me to wane fondly of my 
time on the most majestic of trails....

Ok, well, you get the point.

People numbly live their whole lives like this. The *real* world is merely a 
2 week vacation; always just a memory.

-postholer

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