Photoessay #1109 - My mother in the forest

This picture was taken on some trip that my parents took. Must be in the 1990s sometime. I don't know where, somewhere with Really Big Trees. Doesn't look like the northwest. Not dated. I'm sure that my father framed it to include the huge tree trunk.

To me, this picture seems somehow otherworldly. My mother looking off into the distance. Into the past or into the future?

But the immense tree overwhelms her in the picture. The huge tree trunk and roots radiate so much more power, we are nothing in the face of nature. We are so small and our lives so short.