• landscape,  mountains,  natural areas,  Plants,  quotes,  sunsets,  trees

    Happy Birthday Marcee

    Sun setting at Reservoir Ridge Natural Area

    “Love is not just something that
    happens to you… it is a certain
    special way of being alive. Love
    is, in fact, an intensification of
    life, a completeness, a fullness,
    a wholeness of life.” Thomas Merton

    Today is my sister’s birthday! Don’t let her know how I see her as a gift to us because it will go to her head! Have a super Awesome day! I ❤ you, Marcee!

  • landscape,  mountains,  sunsets

    The Quiet at the End of the Day

    “I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.” Anne Frank

    Have a wonderful weekend!

  • clouds,  landscape,  Plants,  quotes,  sunsets,  trees

    Found a New Tree

    “We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” Hermann Hesse

    I discovered this unique shaped tree this past week while roaming around the area north of Fort Collins. This is an area that I think I’d like to live. It’s not far from town and almost no multi-family building but homes on larger lots, a remnant of the farm life. I could have my small little cottage, solitude, a garden, chickens and enjoy views like this morning and evening. Dreaming. Anyway, just to forewarn you there may be a few more pics of this tree in the future.

  • landscape,  mountains

    Clear Blue Skies

    Clear skies over Longs Peak
    Clear skies over Longs Peak

    I drove to Loveland yesterday morning to meet my sister for coffee, share a hug and some talk time. As I came upon this scene I needed to stop and take it all in and I jus happen to have my camera. The water at the bottom of the image is a large puddle of melted snow in the wheat field.

  • quotes

    Truth

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    Lupines

    Men cannot understand Truth because they cling to self, because they believe in a love self, because they believe self to be the only reality, whereas it is the one delusion. The Way of Peace by James Allen