Weekend Wanderings...

Weekends are for coffee shops and long wanderings outside.
They are for Camden and Mount Battie - for hikes and explorations.

Because "man's heart away from nature becomes hard." ~ Standing Bear.

And "the poetry of the earth is never dead." ~ John Keats.

And "in all of nature, there is something of the marvelous." ~ Author unknown.

And because "everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~ John Muir.

Because "happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature." ~ Kelly Scheaffer.

And "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountains and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." ~ John Lubbock.

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters." ~ St. Bernard.

Because "nature is the art of God." ~ Thomas Browne.

And "Earth's crammed with Heaven, and every common bush afire with God." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

And because "truly is may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man." ~ George Wherry.

And because we - our little family - we "go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have our senses put in order." ~ John Burroughs

We go to find the sacred amidst the chaos.

"The Heavens are the heavens of the LORD. But the earth He has given to the sons of men." ~ Psalm 115:16.


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2516. Weekend Wanderings.
2517. Intentional time as a family.
2518. God of ALL creation.
2519. Proper perspective - my smallness amidst the vastness of creation.
2520. Three boys - running wild and free.
2521. Seeing the beauty.
2522. Warm days, snowy nights.
2523. Maple sap running.
2524. Little rocks, humungous mountains - made by the same Creator.
2525. Little me, Creator YOU.