Contemporary landscape of eastern Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk).

Guard rails border each side of a low spot in the road, over an unseen stream. The road rises towards the left as it recedes and turns behind trees. Across the road is a cluster of upright dark evergreens, with pale bare deciduous trees fallen between them. On the upper right, a bright yellow-green field rises to a wooded border, with many evergreens leaning at a steep angle towards the left. Shadows fall across the road in the opposite direction, from left to right, in unequal intervals.

Based on my photo taken in eastern Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk) in October 2022, five weeks after Post-Tropical Storm Fiona hit with sustained hurricane-force winds.

The landscape was suddenly and drastically altered overnight, and clearing so many fallen trees -- even just from priority infrastructure -- was a slow and expensive process, leaving other fallen trees for much later intervention, or for nature to deal with in its own time, so that scenes like this became commonplace, a constant reminder of nature's destructive power.