Travels to a World in Yellow

The prominent yellow beak of the Stellar’s sea eagle stands out among the pure white drift ice in the Shiretoko seas. The vast African landscape is dyed gold during the dry season. Wildlife roaming the parched plains takes on the same hue. In the far north of Canada, we experienced life through the yellow petals of flowers blooming in the fleeting summer days. Everywhere we went, there was a time of day when the sun turned all things gold. Every dawn and every dusk, the land would be steeped in gold. Delicate flowers, downy hair on the young ones, withered leaves— We often feel a twinge of wistfulness when we come across a golden landscape.