Coming Home
We have lived here a few weeks short of five years. Still, every time I drive off the hardtop into the gorge that Goose Creek carved to make our home place, it seems a retreat from hurry. It feels like a birth in reverse--going from the larger world back into a protected and familiar womb.
I must not take this blessing for granted. And so I am pleasantly compelled to see and record the beauty, the everyday detail--so familiar it risks becoming ordinary. I feel the obligation to share through the words and the images. This accountability urges me to take notice, asks me to look longer and deeper than I might; to see the ordinary through new eyes.
All of it is amazing. Only our indifference knows the ordinary.
Comments
Breath taking!
Take Care
Michael
Posted by: Michael | October 21, 2004 8:58 AM
My Goodness, Fred, that's beautiful! I feel the same way when I turn off the state road to come up "my" mountain to home. Every day, coming home from work is like a vacation - quiet, peaceful, serene. I've been here 25 years and it doesn't get ordinary - ever.
hugs from PA
Posted by: connie | October 21, 2004 10:49 AM
Amen! And isn't it interesting how in the act of sharing it, we are led even more to discover the extraordinary?
Posted by: Dave | October 21, 2004 8:14 PM
Fred,
Beautiful! I was near your place yesterday, but elected to head towards NewCastle rather than through Allegheny Springs. I took a few photos with my wife's canon powershot. Nothing as nice as your work, but they serve to help me remember what a beautiful world we live in. The link points to a few of the pics.
Take care,
Chris
Posted by: chris | October 25, 2004 11:04 AM