What I love about these photos is that they come from life--they are a window into my uncle's strolls (and paddles and rows and kayaks) in the parts of the world he's blessed to see. The world is full of wonder, color, adventure, and peace. I hope these photos will help us remember that and maybe start to see and appreciate what our own walks and paddles have to offer us.
Here is a bit of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" that I love and think goes well with these thoughts and images:
"The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is undubitably made up of some twenty and thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give them no title."
The most precious parts of this earth are for any who will look and see.
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