Could Moses’ burning bush actually have been fall color? That’s the revelation Joe Willis proposes in his blog, Black Oak Naturalist. It seems Joe was exploring (no surprise, he’s constantly searching for magical discoveries) when he came upon a flame red dogwood in a brown wood absent of other color. It glowed so red hot, that the “godwood” appeared to be burning. There is wonder in the woods, as John Muir so often told us. We have only to walk in reverie to find its magic.
Nice picture, but it falls short of the biblical description.
“And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire and was not burnt.”
Agreed. It’s something I had in file of dogwood from Yosemite. Joe’s shot (too small to post here) was of a fully flame red dogwood in a dark forest… a spot of firey brilliance.