eternity in an hour

Farewell-to-spring along the creek in the Giant Forest, yesterday

"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour." William Blake

Once in your lifetime, go to the Giant Forest.


life force radiating from an ancient and sentient sequoia tree, yesterday

"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail." John Muir



Sequoia gigantea in the Giant Forest yesterday afternoon

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." John Muir


sunset on saturday, at a turnout on hwy 180. looking from the western slope of the sierra nevada toward the coast range, across the san joaquin valley. still miles from the rocky bottom, kevin.

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." John Muir


John Muir and I, kindred souls of celtic root, we have found heaven on earth in this cathedral sequoia grove called the giant forest.