{This Moment}

{this moment}  from Soulemama- A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

Athabasca Glacier, Lake Louise Gondola, Lake Moraine and BEARS!

Takkakaw Falls and Lake Louise

Paint Pots and Marble Falls

Invermere Hiking

The view from our back balcony

Calgary and Invermere

McDonald Observatory and Balmorhea

Big Bend Day 2

It will make you breathe deeply whenever you think of it, for you have inhaled eternity. There is no tree, no house to measure things by. You are in scale with the cactus plant, the stone in the distance — the all-important and the nothing.

-Ludwig Bemelmans,

“Texas Legend,” McCall’s, August 1956

Big Bend Day 1

Finally, I wish to offer my opinion, just as a private visitor, that although the old saying that “he who travels must be prepared to take away only as much as he brings with him” applies to all our great parks, it holds true especially of Big Bend. It is a desert-mountain country whose qualities offer an allurement, a satisfaction of soul, only if the visitor will put himself in the right mood, and will remain long enough to know it with some intimacy. He who drives in and drives out without letting the motor cool, may see, to be sure, some most interesting natural objects, but he will not know, and can never love, Big Bend.

-Freeman Tilden, 1945