The Cycle of Nature

I present this series of photographs following a visit to Prince Edward Island in Canada.

During this trip, I crossed the island from North to South and from West to East, visiting the inland of this beautiful Canadian province while skirting its coasts and stopping randomly on its various beaches.

One place really disoriented me by its natural side, it is the Prince Edward Island National Park near Cavendish including the island or peninsula of Robinson. In fact, I have again perceived the effect that Nature gives me at times. And in that place, at this season with few and sometimes without any tourist (late May, early June), I considered myself lucky because this short trek inside the peninsula, allowed me to be amazed by Nature, again.

The trees or rather the pine forest bordering the sea in that location was attacked by soil erosion which was, I believe, a common phenomenon on the coastline. The seaside was covered by dead and totally uprooted trees. Some of them seemed to have been slaughtered because their trunks were completely blackened as if they had burned before ... This view made me think of catacombs, where human bones were replaced by trees with their branches emptied of any life. Surprisingly, while penetrating deeply in the forest this view of fallen trees was blurred, replaced by the crossing of alleys of younger trees in full growth. It seemed like to me a kind of cycle of life (death, birth) that Nature through this forest, showed me there.

June 2019,

Jean