Photo of the backlit near-silhouettes of a tall evergreen flanked by aspen and white willow that stand along the edge of a needle-carpeted riverbank amongst large rocks and a single, horizontal border of fallen white aspen. The sun and patches of blue sky are radiant behind the dense arms and umbrellas of branches that twine and hold hands over the trunks, every branch and cluster of leaf or long, needled finger absolutely covered in thick, veil-like webbing as though someone has drawn a patiently thinned sheath of Halloween cotton over each tree. Below the branches are "windows" formed by the framing of the silhouettes, the webs, and the rocks where the light flashes almost dazzlingly off the water and makes everything glow. Up close, you can see thousands of tiny bright fairies--the summer midges--like pixels trying to assemble themselves along the water, and all the softly netted trees are clotted with them.