The part-time neighbors who give me permission to walk the mountain loop adjacent to my property have gone to their full-time home as of yesterday morning. The forecast cold front had whooshed through, taking the hazy skies with it.
At 62F with remnants of the wind still ruffling the grasses, Karl and I took a lunch time walk.
What a beautiful day!
Everything that is Montana in the Spring is in this photo: green grass and trees, blue sky, white clouds…dark clouds, snow rapidly retreating from the mountain tops.
The air is as clear and clean as it looks. A breeze comes up off and on and the dark clouds skirt the mountain tops but at noon, when Karl and I walked it felt like the late Spring day that it was.
A day a little warm in the sun for a black dog who isn’t quite rid of his winter undercoat. He’s waiting for me in a spot of shade.
Meanwhile, back at the house…
Mr. Bob gets a somewhat slower start to his Monday.
One fine day all around :)!
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26
Photo taken 2/4/2010: more from the evening walk. This photo is very similar to the one posted previously, but the verse from Isaiah was part of my morning reflection and it led me to look at the group of photos from that evening.
In this morning’s entry, Oswald Chambers in “My Utmost for His Highest” writes:
“If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in Nature. In every wind that blows, in every night and day of the year, in every sign of the sky, in every blossoming and in every withering of the earth, there is a real coming of God to us if we will simply use our starved imagination to realize it.”
My next reading from Andrew Murray’s “Mighty is His Hand” had a similar theme of God in everything:
Accept with gratitude everything that God allows to come into your life. I mean all things – whether from the world without, or attacks from within; whether from friend or enemy; in nature or in grace.
Hmmm
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26
Amen!
Karl and I walked the mountain loop in the crunchy slush just before sunset. It had been mostly gray and overcast all day, but cleared late afternoon. Temperatures in the 30’s felt mild in the late sunshine and we dawdled on our way.
Not quite alpenglow but the setting sun lit the mountain tops showing them off against the dark clouds.
Photo taken 2/4/2010.