The Land of Oz

Purchasing entry by way of squeezing through tight foliage brings you to the Emerald City of nature. Once in, you find just enough space to take in the entire sight. As you look around, several shades of green radiate about you. The lighter hue of spanish moss coats all and serves as a backdrop for the dark needles and medium-toned foliage spilling over the ground, just like an ocean wave crests over rocks and sand. If you were to touch your surroundings, you would feel a multidimensional world on your fingertips. Soft, hard, rough and the surprise of the sharp, barbed needles of the devil's club. All are allowed entrance, just as into the Emerald City, who so deigns to squeeze through- the sun's rays included. Viewing the light's change upon entry makes you wonder if they, too, have truly accepted the hue of the forest. Finally, and most surprising, you desire to cast your eyes upward, catching an impossible sight. Perched upon evergreen branches, amidst the ever-present moss, stands seedlings of various sizes. What an amazing thing to view such grand trees holding their children upon their backs, just as a gorilla would!