Hello Dear friends ~
This is "Take - Two"
from our anniversary get-away.
Some of you had asked me to share more photo's,
so why not.
I wanted to share with you some unusual captions.
For what ever reason, I was intrigued
with some of what I am going to share.
We saw these dead juniper trees at
Arches National Park.
That was the prominent tree there,
so we saw many dead ones.
They seemed lonely to me :(
as if to be reaching out for something.
Sounds strange I know.
The park would use these dead branches as fencing.
I thought it was a terrific way to use them up.
Then there was Dead Horse Point,
This was a State Park, and gorgeous!
There is a legend for this point
that I thought was quite interesting.
~
"According to one legend, the point was once used for a corral
for wild mustangs roaming the mesa.
Cowboys rounded up these horses, herded them across
the narrow neck of land and onto the point.
The neck, which is only 30 yards wide,
was then fenced off with branches and brush,
creating a natural corral surrounded by precipitous cliffs.
Cowboys then chose the horses they wanted
and for reasons unknown, left the other horses corralled
on the waterless point where they died of thirst
within view of the Colorado River, 2,000 feet below."
~ Taken from the brochure ~
If this is true, how sad!
Then there was, as I called it, "The Land of Castles."
My husband and I both enjoyed this area
for different reasons.
He loved the way the color of the soil went from
a rust color to a soft white color.
Like the "little girl" in me,
I loved how they reminded me of castles.
These rock formations made me think
of a village with castles of all shapes and sizes
and little pathways connecting the village together.
I could imagine life taking place there
with little people scurrying about dressed in their mid evil cloths.
But ~ the only life seen were those on the hiking trail. :)
And how about "We Three Kings."
This rock formation made me think of the
three wise men traveling together so they could
worship the baby Jesus, our Savior.
Look at them, their all in a row, one following the other.
This rock made me think of how great our God is!
This is a pretty good sized rock
as you can see with the people standing at the base of it.
They look quite small.
In our eyes that rock is huge
~ yet ~
it is nothing compared to the greatness of our God.
When I saw this rock, Psalm 147:5 came to my mind.
"Great is our Lord, and of great power;
his understanding is infinite."
How small we really are in this
BIG WIDE WORLD of God's,
and He holds it all in the palm of His hand.
Speaking of greatness, look how steep
those steps were on one of our hiking trails!
Had I been short I would have had to skip the hike. :(
Notice I have my winter jacket on!!
But O boy was it ever fun!
Now for dessert! Oh ~ did I say dessert?
Doesn't this "Collapsed Dome" look like
mint and chocolate ice cream?
So here was this Collapsed Dome right in the
center of the Canyon Lands where the soil
was a rich rusty color, yet it stood out from all the rest.
It was different, didn't even go with the rest of the area.
God's handy work!
Only He could create this kind of beauty.
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"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator
of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
there is no searching of his understanding."
(Isaiah 40:28)
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Oh Heavenly father,
Your beauty surrounds us,
and every where we look, we see Your handy work.
May we praise Your Holy Name,
and give you our thanks for it all.
Amen.
Be Blessed
