In Honor of Ansel

We are leaving tomorrow.  A few more spots to see.  It turned out to be picture day.

Even with the rains coming in, My Lovely captured some good shots.

But don't give her too much credit, though.   Let me tell you how beautiful this place is:

Schwabacher's Landing
One of the spots is so beautiful, so serene, so picturesque that people are stepping quietly as they walk and speaking in hushed tones.  We have not seen this anywhere else.

An offshoot of the Snake River trickles into a pond created by a beaver dam.  The crystal clear water overflows the dam, a short waterfall, but enough fall that the sound quiets the visitors.  Ducks, upside down, feeding in the resulting stream surrounded by reeds of grass 15" tall in varying shades from green to yellow as a sparing amount of wild flowers populate the edge of the pathway. 

A couple sits atop a rock with a full-blown romantic picnic.  Others sit on a bench in silence.  While still others stand in contemplation.  My Lovely and I walk along hand-in-hand.

Snake River Overlook
Re-creations of famous photos from the 1940s by Ansel Adam's.  Views so iconic, they make the guidebooks.  We saw people out there with $3000 cameras recreating the same photos.

Honestly, I am impressed.  My Lovely does such a great job.  Yes, these are awesome scenes.  Sometimes, the camera gets the view.  Sometimes, the picture can only be a reminder of what we saw.  But to see My Lovely's face in these settings, in the moment she is experiencing, a click in time, it fuels my heart.  She captures the memory, but she feels it in her soul.  I love it.

From Amy....Pat said it right...some of these places feel so special it's like God is standing beside you. What will God's new creation be like if this one cannot even be compared?

Some black and whites of my own in honor of the master photographer, Ansel Adam's, at some of the iconic places he photographed.
It was a low-light, misty day. But beautiful anyway.Read more