Back From the Island
Sunrise a Saratoga Beach Vancouver Island
This is the view that greeted me the other morning just a few steps from our rented cabin at Black Creek on Vancouver Island. Even this late in the year the weather held for us on our trip. To get to Black Creek we took a Ferry, called what else! but “Coastal Inspiration” from the British Columbia mainland to Duke Point on Vancouver Island.
Here prescription cialis generic is a picture of a freighter we passed on our way over.
A freighter on the water
Black Creek is about an hour and half drive up the coastal highway with a view of the water most of the way.
Here is a couple of shots of our cabin.
A view from inside our cabin out at the ocean
The Cabin as seen from the beach
I discovered this little guy on one of my walks:
A woodpecker who did not seem to mind me photographing his as he worked
At night sitting, around the fire pit, listening to the wood crackle and gazing at the stars gave me a chance to really let go and truly relax. We all need to do this from time to time. You don’t have to travel far away to do this. What you need to do is find a space that allows peace to seep in through your pores. Where is your place?
Here is a quote which for me describes the process:
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
Source: James Carroll
I had a great time, recharged my batteries, and took time to reconnect to the universe.
What is your favorite way of allow peace to seep through your pores? Let me know I would love to hear from you.
Fall crocus in full bloom
Walk in Quiet Places
Nick
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Nick, that is a beautiful sunrise… what a way to greet the day.
Hi Nicole,
Yes I got very excited when I decided to take my early morning walk about.
I’ve got a few pictures of that sunrise.
Nick
Hi Nick,
I’m glad you got time to “recharge your batteries” . I really enjoyed your photos, the sunset is so beautiful and it was fun to see your cabin and walking sights. Did your dogs get to go too?
Reconnecting in quiet spaces is so needed for all of us. If I can’t get to a spectacular place I just look at the sky and get lost in the clouds, it works for me…especially in the early morning or the early evening, or even the stars later at night. The sky can be a constant place to let go in. Other than that I like to just go for walks and be in nature.
Looks like you had a nice break even if you didn’t get any potato chips!
Thanks again,
Susan
Hi Susan,
Yes it was an enjoyable break. I agree that we don’t need to get away to find quiet places, you can in fact create them anywhere. I love the sky as a place to look to find stillness, or quietness, the stars scream quiet to me, if that makes sense.
That sunrise I think ranks as the most beautiful I have seen and with it came an incredible peace and stillness.
As for the potato chips, I did sneak a few.
Nick
One question…In the glow on the log where is that coming from? It’s so beautiful, did you have a fire? It is a great picture, the sky the water even the foreground….
Susan
Hi Susan,
No I did not have a fire going. The logs must have been misted because that is the glow of the sun reflecting off the wood. I tell you it was an amazing sunrise. It said alot to me which is not translatable into any language.
I am thrilled the picture came out so well. I am all ready considering for the cover of the 2010 Calendar!!!!!
Nick
Nick, as always you never disappoint me when taking photos. These are absolutely beautiful.
I, too, love the sunrise. It’s too beautiful for words!
So glad you had an opportunity to get away to recharge your batteries. We have to do so from time to time to maintain our sense of reality.
My way of charging batteries is to go for a walk with nature, i.e., alongside a lake, walk thru unchartered paths, walk through the cemetary and talk with my friends and family, take a walk along the beach with a steaming cup of hot coffee, or just go outside and sit in silence and watch the little creatures scoot about.
All of God’s creation is beautiful.
Chris
Hi Chris
Good to hear from you and I am glad you like this photo. It’s become a favorite.
I agree about recharging batteries. Nature seems to be a natural battery recharger.
Even my drive home tonight in the pouring rain on the freeway with the dark sky setting off the beautiful color of the trees along the way. It was delicious.
All the best.
Nick