Above the clouds
Tenerife · 15 April 2026
A pine-covered ridge breaking the surface of a solid cloud layer below.
The trade winds pile cloud up against Tenerife's northern slopes at a fairly consistent altitude, which is exactly why the island's observatories and its highest trails so often sit in clear air above a sea of it. The pines are Canary Island pines, the only tree that grows up here, and they survive fire by sprouting from the trunk.
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