Learn to Fish

                           Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime.
                                  ~old Proverb~

A Castle in the Forest

A stone castle sits nestled 9,000 feet into the San Isabel forest it is an

amazing feet of human ingenuity. Jim Bishop has been building his dream for the past forty years. All of the work has been done by Jim himself with materials gathered from the surrounding area. This is truly an amazing place.

 

   

 

 

St. John The Divine Denver Colorado

 

Gardners of the Spirit

 

“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, 

who knows that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and'

without light nothing flowers.

~May Sarton~

 

Removal

 

                                    
                                     "No one can make you feel inferior but
                                       yourself."
                                                            ~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Unexpected Gift

 Last night I was able to photograph the moon at the elevation of eleven thousand feet at the top of Trail Ridge Road. Fortunately, the universe gave me two marvelous opportunities to experience moon and sun both at the same time. How wonderful is that? The past two days the Rocky Mountains have been covered with a smokey haze due to wildfires from Utah. Consequently, this haze has provided stunning images of sunsets along the front range. The particulates in the air given from the smoke, gives hues of reds and oranges as the sun sets behind the beautiful Rockies. The following image, the sunset, was taken a few minutes after photographing the above image of the moon. I think of the ying and yang of life as the moon on my left and the sunset on my right and finding the balance of life in the middle.

                  The best things in life are unexpected~because there are no

                expectations.

Flight to Paradise

   Spiritual progress isn't one of "getting somewhere," as there is not "where" to get. Instead, you're guided to transcend your ego and shed illusions so that the Truth stands revealed.
                                                 ~Dr. David Hawkins~

Turn Your Face to the Sun

Happiness lies in hope.
The moment might be happy,
but unless one could feel confident
in the hope that there would
be other such moments,
then happiness was worth little.
~Mary Balogh~

 

 

 

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you.

 

 

 

 

" All that we behold is full of blessings." 

~William Wordsworth~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mountain Meadows

   

  This summer has been glorious for the blooming of mountain wildflowers. The cacophony of color is amazing as well as stands of white and green. The rain this season has been great for wildflowers, but in the two burn scar areas located south and north of our home the flooding has been devastating.

Rocky Mountain Big Horn

The magnificent Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep was designated official state animal of Colorado in 1961. Named for their massive, curling horns(which can grow to 50 inches in length) and known for their agility  and perfect balance.  The pictures here are of the Desert Bighorn Sheep which is a subspecies of the Rocky Mountain bighorn. Today there was a great number of people stopped along side the highway taking pictures of  these sheep. Of course, I had to join the clicking of cameras as I was so delighted to see such a marvelous sight.  What a joy to find these magnificent animals grazing along the mountainside. These sheep can also be seen on the out cropping of rocks along the highway.

 

 

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God's Artistry

    If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make anything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly beauty is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.