Back in the Big Bend !

 

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 While the environs on the borders of the BBNP are certainly developed ridicously now ( a stretch limosine rental company, Family Dollar, hundreds of yurts, tents, bubbles- you name it for rent, and even an attempt at a vineyard???? ) the beauty , majesty, and glorious peace still holds!

On a Cold Night in Bejing!

 

 

 

I went for a walk alone, the night before we were supposed to fly from Bejing to Nanning and meet our daughter to start the adoption process. It was from a hotel at the airport, quite a ways outside the main part of Bejing, not much around but a little district where airport workers lived and a street lined with small shops! I bought Renee' a yellow rose in one and something that looked like a thick tortilla with meat from a street vendor cooking them over a charcoal fire! It was delicious and the smile I got from the vendor was so genuine! It was snowing. I doubt that a guest had ever ventured outside the hotels gated and fenced compound! Everything felt so right.

December 2002
 

humanity put Him on the cross

 

 and humanity keeps Him there even though simply loving one another would release

Him.

 

Our House in the Big Bend!

 

 

 Well, technically its an out house but as you can see from the surroundings there's no trees to lean against! Try leaning against an ocotillo and see where that gets you! While you can see the mouth of Santa Elana Canyon from the right-side window the view directly ahead from the "throne" is of the Chisos Mountains and Mount Emory, the second highest peak in Texas! 

  Eight miles from the nearest paved road, though four of those aren't even roads, and over terrain and through hopefully dry washes and creek beds that takes a very skilled driver and 45min to ? hours to navigate you'd think it would be left alone. 

  But no, its been deliberately turned over several times. And we leave water there in case someone is in distress.

  Sad.

 

You can click on the image to enlarge but nothing can give the sense of peace and grandeur the place imparts- except being there!