Gratitude Challenge - Day Five

I'm sitting on our elevated redwood deck looking out over a pine/spruce forest with a view of the mountains surrounding the Lake Tahoe Basin.  The sky is azure and the clouds are the color of white the manufacturers of Tide lust after.  There's a slight breeze, and the temp is in the 70's.  I'm so grateful we stepped out, left the security of Hurst, and have had the pleasure and privilege of being able to enjoy a smidgen of the width and  breath of this country.

I'm very grateful there were enough people in the previous generations to understand these things are irreplaceable, and I'm equally grateful for the people in the upcoming generation who are committing themselves to not only keeping our national treasures maintained, unpolluted and unspoiled, but trying to spread the idea of wherever someone lives the resources and beauty are finite. 

Fall, New England, Profile Lake

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Finally, I'm grateful for the filmmakers of in depth documentaries who use pictures and words to bring the sense of who we were and we are to everyone.  I'm going to finish the 'gratitude' challenge with just a few pictures which illustrate my gratitude for our lives over the past five years.

Lake Tahoe, California

Redwood Trees, Muir Wood, California

Pffeifer Falls, Big Sur, California

Big Sur, California

Virginia, James River

Shenendoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia

Maymont Japanese Garden, Richmond, Virginia

Yale from the Grove Cemetery

Logan Pass, Glacier National Park

Mystic Seaport, Connecticut River

Mammoth Springs, Yellowstone

Black Sand Beach, Hawaii

The "Needles" at Seal Rock, Oregon

Craters of the Moon National Monument

Shoshone Falls, Idaho

New York City from the top of the
 Empire State Building

Picture Lake in the Cascade Mountains, Washington State

Fog rolling in over San Francisco Bay

Luray Caverns, Virginia

The Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Arizona Desert (enhanced with a Chilhuly glass sculpture)