Have you noticed? Morning is never in a hurry.
Each and every day she emerges slowly, quietly, calmly into a dance that starts with the veriest glimmer of light, a light that grows steadily, inexorably, into a glow that fills the entire landscape.
Morning Sun Salutation metal print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/morning-sun-salutation-steve-henderson.html?product=metal-print
I never accepted the religion I was raised with. Eventually I realized that my religion waited outdoors, where I discovered a faith I could live by. The music and sacred architecture of the natural world touched me more profoundly than any church. The gods that haunted forests and ridgetops spoke truths I never heard in church. I found this faith most meaningfully in national parks.
#CalvaryChapel #Christianity #NationalParks #nature #religion #spirituality #wilderness
https://www.sacredwonderland.us/finding-religion/
Unique. Independent. Unusual.
She didn't do group think. It wasn't that she was unwilling or unable to work with others; indeed, she believed that a community of people with similar goals could go far, do much.
But that community had to be made up of people who could think for themselves.
Lady of the Lake greeting card -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lady-of-the-lake-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card
CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT
"From the autumn of 1904 to the winter of 1906 I lived, most of the time, alone in a little cabin on the Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains, surrounded by one of the finest primeval forests in the world.
My few neighbors were born
back-woodsmen."
by Horace Kephart
@futzle Mother Woila is a mountain in a remote & extremely wild part of Deua National Park in NSW. The navigation to get there is very challenging, through precipitous hill-spur country. I twice attempted the infamous Woila Circuit and failed both times, but fully intended to keep going back until I'd succeeded. Alas, #mecfs had other ideas, but I try to hold onto that wild version of myself.
Anyway, I desperately needed to replace my teenage username of StickyVelvet (I know ....), and WildWoila was a whole lot more palatable.
Which begs the question: what terrible internet handles do people have hidden in the closet?
Our coastal temperate #rainforests on Vancouver Island are super lush with so much #biodiversity. They are worth conserving & protecting. These forests are also full of medicines, some yet to be discovered.
#photography #wilderness #hiking
From my first wilderness hiking in the high Mountains of Norway, June 1983
Drifting Clouds Over the Icy Mountain Frontier
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Nubes Errantes Sobre la Helada Frontera Montañosa
I send thanks to the buyer from New Jersey who purchased a framed print of
A Moment to Reflect -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/a-moment-to-reflect-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
May the artwork take you to a place that is far from the crowds and the noise, where peace sits quietly by the banks of the river, and where you can't find your phone.
Emerald veils in twilight’s glow,
Whispering secrets soft and low,
Time stands still where wild roots grow
