What I Saw - Cornwallis, WV

North Bend Rail Trail - WV - Cornwallis to Ellenboro

What we need.  Wilderness is for us.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. 
--John Muir

The Wisdom of Thomas Merton

Water along North Bend Rail Trail - Between Cornwallis and Ellenboro, WV

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.    -Thomas Merton


Oh Thank you.
Let my body rest. Let me walk into silence and appreciate the place.

And say"Oh!"

The great array that is available to us

Wild turkeys - Clifty Falls, Indiana

If one has a sense of wonder one finds one is a part of nature.  When you are mindful, you are present, you feel that you want to say "Oh!"  We have senses that allow us to feel the beauty of nature, and to absorb the beauty of nature into us.

A great day - gratitude

Cake Rock - Clifty Falls, Indiana

We care about the things we love.  When one comes to this place one loves this place.
We want to protect these things.  The light of imagination comes into our being and we say "Oh!"

Artisan work

Rock Wall from local rocks - McConnell Springs - Lexington, Kentucky

These impressive rock walls are along Old Frankfort Pike west of Lexington.  This wall was available for viewing at McConnell springs in Lexington.  These walls were built at a time when immigrants from Ireland were working to pay off the price of the trip to the United States.  These walls will be standing for decades to come unless some extreme natural event damages the walls.  These walls are very durable.