I love the west and all it has to offer. Have you ever put your head out the window of a car going 50 MPH? You get that breathless feeling and the wind is ripping through your hair as you speed on. (That's what I think flying would feel like if I had wings.) Traveling west into the "Open Frontier" gives me this feeling inside. Its open and cold and warm all at the same time. My family travels to Colorado almost every summer and some winters for vacations. I love forgetting about where I live and forgetting my troubles that go along with it. Every time I go west I feel this way. It feels like a breath of fresh air that can give you chills during the night but warms you up when the sun peaks over the mountains towering above you. The wildflowers, beautiful ponds and streams in the summer and the exhilarating skiing and lovely snow that falls in the winter, all seems to come along with the package of living in the west. There are deserts as well, but these have a beauty about them that is different from any other place I have ever been.
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| The Forests in BC |
As you go north into Canada and BC area you start running into cold air that seems to stick around all year long. The trees that grow in British Columbia are like nothing I have ever seen before. Like giants looking over little dwarfs that protects them from the open sky that lurks behind the sheet of green. Underneath the giant fir trees, huge ferns grow with fierce ambitions to ever reach the height of the trees towering above them. Growing on the trees is moss that doesn't want to let go and just wisps through the cool Canadian air. From the outside looking in, the forests are so dark you can barely make out what might or might not be inside. Canada has a special place in my heart now that I have seen all the beauty it offers. Its an amazing thing that God created all this. He is so Beautiful (Beautiful - Phil Wickham)!
Overall not only does Canada have a special place in my heart but the West in general has it. Whats an amazing place we live in. The place we call Earth.
More to come.
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