Hoh Rain Forest (#1413)

On the Hall of Mosses Trail. What's memorable here is the picture I didn't take. Just to my right, there was a lithe young man (late teens), lying on his back across a moss-covered portion of a tree, in a pose that looked like he was a model for some pre-Raphaelite style of portraiture. To make matters even more bizarre, there was a much older man (at least my age (late 60's)) seeming to be hovering around him with a camera taking pictures. To add further to the sense of having come across a variation on "Lolita", there were other people nearby just meandering around looking at the trees, acting as if nothing unusual was occurring.

Mystified, I decided to continue walking – just a few feet past the scene, the older man came walking up the trail mumbling about his crazy grandson.

This turned out to be just the first in two odd social occurrences of the day – the second will be in forthcoming pictures.