A hike into the hills near where we were camped in the Catskills. The bird at the beginning of the video is a Scarlet Tanager. These red birds were my totem animal on the trip. As the car entered the preserve, I saw one very close, magically hovering over a branch. And this one, maybe the same one, came to our camp inviting me to enter the forest. It reminded me of the fairy/insect in Pan’s Labyrinth, only with a much less dramatic outcome.

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