Natures Beauty

I wanted to talk about these particular photos. The one I used as my Profile (for now) was taken on top of Mt. Evans, Colorado in the summer. My Parents drove my daughter and me to the top of this 14teener. It was warm, about 73 degrees at the base of the mountain when we started and gradually it got cooler. By the time we got to the top it was 54 degrees and my daughter was making snowballs from the little patches interspersed throughout the terrain. What amazes me about these mountain flowers is the perfection in every petal, not a dark tip from too much exposure or a wilt from not enough water. I've seen the hen and chicks grow in warm climates, it's more natural habitat and look in need of a green thumb. Not only was this little patch of heaven growing in the rock crevice but as you hiked around other little patches of perfection in different arrangements were hiding for you to discover. I could have taken a hundred pictures and not have a bad one. When I see this picture I think of a masters touch, lets put yellow-for the sun, periwinkle-for the horizon and a touch of white-to represent the snow. Now lets add a bed of deep maroon behind the broad leafed green to enhance it's texture. Let's give it a background of variated grey rock with touches of moss to balance the landscape.... To me this is an artistic garden God layed out to show His beauty and through nature he says, "I am always there even when it seems I'm not." Above timberline can be desolate, rocky, a hard terrain, but if you look closer life, growth and small wonders can be found.

So when life looks like its got you between a rock and a hard place, look close, you're not alone.