Monday, June 21, 2010

A Surprise in the Landscape

I found an entirely unexpected spot when I was running in the woods today; I found myself running through a grove of young birch trees, the ground had obviously been clear a few years ago but had now been abandoned. suddenly I was out in the open with the morning sun shining down on me and a series of terraces dropping down before me, each one fringed with saplings and bushes. The cutting stretched away to an opening in the hillside, where I could see the landscape rolling into the distance, the haze in the air barely hiding the coastline. It was an abandoned quarry, but to me it looked like a spot right out of WoW, as if it had been engineered to be an interesting landscape. Honestly, I was looking for jaggies.