#red larch

“Mother, does the war still rage?” “The war ever rages, here.”

At first there were a lot of oaks (browny red) and maples (orange and fire red) mixed in among the pines (green), tamaracks and birches (also golden yellow, slightly more lemony), and it looked like the landscape was on fire but in a good way. As I continued north, the maples and oaks became scarcer, until the land was a sea of gold, with some green and brown for contrast. It was so beautiful. I wanted to be a 19th century landscape painter just to try to capture the feeling of traveling a land made of jewels.

  ­∼ Stone Bridge was a bridge located along the River Dessarin, connecting the Red Larch and the Long Road to the High Forest. The bridge, which was also a temple to Moradin, was a single arch, about two miles in length and 400ft high, made of granite, roughly six paces wide, with no railings or barriers. The gigantic stone archway comfortably spans the widest spring flood of the Dessarin River.…