What is Life ?

What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in winter. It's the little shadow that dances across the evening grass and disappears into the sunset. Blackfoot Indian Quote

Tenaya Lake, California

Exiting Yosemite National Park towards Tioga Pass and Lee Vining, Tenaya Lake is one of the more beautiful roadside vistas in this country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenaya_Lake 

Kokopelli

This is the biggest and best kokopelli pictograph I've ever seen. It is near life size in red ochre. If I remember correctly, it's in Southern Colorado near Great Sand Dunes NP. Kokopelli was a fertility God, bringer of the spring and rain with the playing of his flute. Petroglyphs date back 3000 years throughout the southwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopelli 

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Tarahumara

Tarahumara ladies well dressed in colorful clothing often hand made.

Copper Canyon, Mexico

In the chilly morning air, one can see chimney smoke rising from nowhere, as the simple homes of the Tarahumara People, built of native rock and wood blend into the landscape. The sounds of laughter and the chopping of wood echo in the hills and canyons, yet from a distance the vista seems uninhabited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Canyon 

Rosea Plena, lotus flower

A hybrid lotus flower as beautiful as life itself. Vast fields of these are sure to be, somewhere, to contend with the Great Suffering in the world.

Tuffa Collums, Mono Lake

Tuffa columns stand along the edge of Mono Lake. Tuffa is a carbonate deposit left by geothermal springs under the 40 foot of water that once stood here. Mono Lake is void of most species of fish, but the brine shrimp do well enough to support large numbers of wading and shore birds where many photographers have a good time with their cameras in the sun shiny days of the California desert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_Lake 

Glacier Point, Yosemite NP

One can't visit Yosemite without first reading John Muir, a man as beautiful as the place.




Photo Taken At Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/glacierpoint.htm 

Universe

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein

Photo- Hopi Teacher and the same basic lesson
 .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_people

Mount Saint Helens Volcano

This is a picture of the mountain about 10 years after the eruption, when a helicopter took us inside the creator to see boiling hot waterfalls, rivers of the weirdest looking water, poisonous gas vents, a bleak gray, baron landscape void of anything resembling the Earth I was familiar with. Imagine it all began this way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens

Keck Observatory

The Universe is a most imaginative example of Heaven, the Earth Its Alter, all things are Holy.

Image of Keck Observatory. Mauna Kea, HI 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._M._Keck_Observatory 

Our Father Who Art in Heaven

Hallowed Be Thy Name.

Pertified Forest National Park

There was once a vast forest here in the Petrified Forest and Painted desert, (a vast expanse of bad land in north eastern AZ).

In the desolation and eerie silence petrified wood and dinosaur bones are exposed by wind and rain. At a certain time of year when rare rains fall, the desert is transformed into a painted landscape by flowers, but it's hard for a simple mind to imagine, having not seen.

https://www.nps.gov/pefo/index.htm