Location Taken: Yellowstone
Time Taken: October 2012
I do love how magnificently white this calcium carbonate is. Especially since it’s a fleeting thing. You see that darker stone in back? Same mineral, but with a touch of oxidization. As soon as the water stops flowing over the stone, it reacts with the air, turning into dull grey flakes. Quite different from the pebbly white it starts out as.
There’s probably some deeper lessons I can pull from this, perhaps something related to the color white and purity, or maybe how destructive oxygen is. But I just wrote “some” as “soom”, so I think I shall leave it at that and get some much-needed sleep.
