Location Taken: Gros Morne National Park
Time Taken: July 2012
I want you to sit and contemplate this hill for a while.
Look at it, see how the red rocks jut out from the slopes around it.
There is some grass and trees at the bottom of the hill. They peter out fast.
Perhaps this is a rather large hill, or maybe a small mountain.
The rocks are unusual, did you notice?
That’s not a rock pattern you see everyday.
It’s an odd rock, really. Pulled from deep within the Earth when this land was forming itself.
It’s full of all sorts of poisons like nickel that keep the plants from growing on it.
So it sits bare, eroding away over time.
It’s a hard material, but it still has eroded so much.
A large portion of the Earth is made of this rock. If the ground was covered in it, nothing would grow.
It is a good thing there are other types of rock.
Even though those rocks lose their shape and identity under a covering mass of greenery.
In order to stand out, a rock must kill.
