A seven year old picture that makes me want to revisit this jewel of a park.
© 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Month: February 2014
The Opposite Road
“People who have made up their minds to rush headlong down the opposite road are never pleased with someone who calls them back and tells them they are on the wrong course.” – Thomas More, Utopia.
Photograph taken at Pictured Rocks, NLS © 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Badlands Bighorn
One of the coolest parts of visiting America’s National Parks is spotting the wildlife. In June of 2009 we made our way through South Dakota’s national treasures. As we entered the Badlands we happened upon this gnarly lookin’ critter feeding on the wet green grass.
A brief article on the bighorn sheep in the Badlands five years ago.
© 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Going Back to Eden
“If you want to [truly appreciate nature], you must go back to the garden of Eden. For… only the supernatural has taken a sane view of Nature. The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: that Nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover that she is a stepmother. The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us…This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Photograph of the Grand Tetons © 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Among The Trees
After a day of slowly motoring through Stanislaus National Forest, we pulled over to capture the environment: to breathe in the sweet smell of pine and listen to the sound of the breeze pushing through the branches above.
© 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Slowly Going The Way of The Hood Ornament
Just like the buffalo these beauties are few and far between.
© 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Running On The Beach
Last year suffering through winter meant running in the sand as the sun set on Huntington Beach. This year suffering through winter has a much more literal meaning.
© 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Experiencing Time Differently
“To fix one’s own car is not merely to use up time, it is to have a different experience of time, of one’s car, and of oneself.”
— Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft
Photograph © 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
Mt. Rushmore
Happy Presidents’ Day to you all. Hopefully everyone of you bought a mattress, or some such traditional sale item, to celebrate the men who have occupied the office, be it faithfully or otherwise.
© 2014 Tyrel Bramwell
I Would Rather Be a Dog! | Sermon
I preached this sermon (on vicarage) at Trinity Lutheran Church in Palo Alto, CA. on February 24, 2013 (The Second Sunday in Lent).
Matthew 15:21-28