out walking

So I'm back home in Zion for the next 5 weeks. I guess no matter where my life takes me I will always consider this place to be my home town. I've been away for a long time, it's strange and yet comforting to retrace paths from childhood, especially some of my favorite play places.

Yesterday I enjoyed a long walk with Maxine our family dog. The summer weather was so inviting and without even realizing it, we walked for 2 1/2 hours. The birds were singing, and I could hear the frogs, and there were deer walking through the tall grasses. I have walked this stretch of land so many times but for some reason the forest seemed so much more alive.

Here are a few pictures from the afternoon. You can see the rest of them on my flickr page. Nature is beautiful isn't it? I find it inspiring. It is rustic and beautiful, perfect and struggling and changing and blooming and growing. Such is life.