Road trip within a road trip

We took a trip the other night to Smith Falls State Park

in Valentine, NB.

With multiple back seat drivers and GPS maps

all of which resulted in our getting lost

but knowing exactly where we were.

Once we arrived,

it was worth the trip.

How's this for an al fresco dining view?

A short hike over to the falls led us through wildflower fields

 and across the Niobrara River.

The temperature was 15 degrees cooler by the falls

and the water couldn't have been any clearer.

It was spectacular.

 When the sunset,

it was dramatic and intense;

 followed by a thunder storm with 360 degree lightening strikes

and thunder crashing all around us.

A very impressive display.

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My bare feet walk the earth reverently

for everything keeps crying,

Take off your shoes.

The ground you stand on is holy.

The ground of your being is holy.

When the wind sings through the grass,

like the breath of God,

awakening you to the sacred present,

calling your soul to new insights,

Take off your shoes.

Take off your shoes of distraction.

Take off your shoes of ignorance and blindness.

Take off your shoes of hurry and worry.

Take off anything that prevents you

from being a child of wonder.

Macrina Weiderkehr