As we were driving along I-94 from Lake Michigan today, I looked at a stand of trees, no idea if they were aspens, but they had that exposed, bright lower trunks look, and I thought how cool they looked, and I wondered if there is something built into us to appreciate that sight, or whether it’s because Ansel brought them to our attention.

I did this completely independent of the fact that an hour later we stopped at the Ella Sharp Museum, just S of Jackson, MI to look at a special exhibition of Ansel Adams prints, including 2 different aspen studies. »