Nature

I sit here looking back through my pictures at all the places I have been and wonder if it really happened. Was I really there? That first moment when you step onto the beach and take that moment to look around you your breath will be stolen from you. All you can do is shake your head in wonder. The thing is that it happens every where I go. Every mountain top I climb. Every path I take, field I walk through, beach or cove we find. Every place is special in it's own way. I have always had a weak spot for nature. It fills me with such joy and reminds me how much God loves me. It humbles me and makes me quite. I've never been much for the ocean or beach but here I love it just as much as the green grass. It's different here. I like it much better here but don't know if I could tell you why.
There are caves to find, sea foam green waters, not shells but rocks, wet sand and cold winds. Another part I love about the coast here is that for the first time i can climb the cliff next to the beach and have an incredible view rather than ride an elevator to look off a balcony. It's so much fun to find these hidden places where you know people have been before and will go but the place itself seems timeless. I also feel this way about a field we walked through. Everything around us was covered in a thick blanket of rich green moss. The rocks now looked soft, the trees were fully green, and even the river bed was green with it. My cousins and I use to make small moss villages and I smiled because here we could have lived in a moss covered world. This time is was life size. The sun was setting and fog was rolling in. Everything was quite, still. The air had a chill in it and I would have loved to walk forever. There for a moment I forgot the suffering of the world. It seemed like everything was going to be okay and for a moment it was. I feel so blessed to have walked through all these places. The land is beautiful here and so very different from home. I miss my mountains but from now the land here has captured my heart.