Autumnal Reflections 9354

Here's a photo from a recent visit to Pewit's Nest, in the Baraboo Hills of Wisconsin. It's an image of the reflection of trees in a stream – look closely, and you can make out the leaves and sticks on the stream bed mixing in with the reflection of the leaves, trunks, and branches of the living trees. I like this image for the visual ambiguity of the combination of living and dead; for the symbolism of the submersion of the dead and the reflection of the living on the water; and for the philosophical musings it suggests about life and death, impermanence, and cycles in nature.

What do you see? Does this image work for you?

(You can see a larger version here.)