Xorkoth said:
... And although I haven't taken it during the day yet, I'm pretty sure that peaking on it out in nature would be indescribable.
It is!
Where I used to live was really densely packed with apartment complexes, except for a 20 or so acre patch of naturalized land with picnic tables at one end. There were trails that wound around all over inside this patch of land.
This was pretty sweet, as I could go from home to a secluded nature setting in about 5 minutes with no real danger of getting lost or looking suspicious (I don't know about you, but when I'm tripping out and walking on a mission to get somewhere of any real distance away from where I began I look pretty fucked up - stopping to mess with vegetation, motionless staring, giggling for reason, etc).
I couldn't tell if the trees were swaying from the wind or the DOC, the bark was alive with streams of different shades of brown, the leaves were intensely green. Looking at the brown bark and green leaves together was almost overwhelming... the contrast! How could anything look more different, and yet, it was perfect. The brown and green meshed in ways no two other things could possibly mesh. It was beyond perfect in ways I cannot describe. I sat on a boulder and just stared, awestruck.
...and then I found the moss on the boulder. It was like a miniture version of the hill I was on. The moss looked like trees on a rocky hillside. Then I saw tiny (6-7mm tall) mushrooms growing from the moss, and ants crawling around. It was like some very small hidden village. I watched the ants go about there business for a while.
The trails seemed almost liquid. The dead, crushed leaves, rocks, dirt, it all melded and flowed. I went with it. It was like I was being led around by something, in order to stop at all these amazing examples of life.
I highly recommend this.