Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Green River Canyon, 09/2008 — Canyonlands National Park, Moab, Utah
The western landscape overwhelmed me.
Canyonlands, Monument Valley, Mesa Verde, Arches, Yellowstone, Death Valley, the Tetons, Bryce and Zion, Yosemite, Mesa Verde, Glacier and Grand Canyon, and Crater Lake in the US, then Banff and Jasper in Alberta all left me with the feeling that I missed too much because it was too much for me to experience and frame with a 35mm Camera. And even though I made multiple trips to several of the parks, I am not finished, and cannot imagine being finished.
I was able to spend late October and early November for ten years running on Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and returned each year for 12 or more years to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, Shenandoah, Acadia, Baxter State Park in Maine, Congaree National Park in South Carolina are all I feel like I "did right by," and cannot imagine what I would photograph that I haven't already photographed in these "close to home" parks.
The Western Landscape eludes me. And I'm planing passing on heaven and spending eternity walking through the western parks to my satisfaction before moving on to the Cosmos and all it has to offer. I can barely wait to get started.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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