California Livin'

These California weekends we've been thoroughly enjoying the amazing scenery we're enveloped in living in this place where both mountains crash into water and waves crash into land.  Almost every, if not every, weekend we've been in town for the past few months, we've gone hiking somewhere.  Within a 45 minute radius each direction there are something like 15 State Parks or more - it's amazing!  And to think that we're sooo much more beautiful than any of this scenery in God's eyes...  :)  It's often easy for us to see incredible beauty in the ones we love, but sometimes it's much harder to see it in ourselves.  

River Trail, Andrew Molera State Park, Big Sur

River Trail, Andrew Molera State Park, Big Sur

7 months pregnant - Bluff Trail, Andrew Molera State Park, Big Sur

Andrew Molera State Park, Big Sur

Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz

Garrapata State Park, Big Sur

Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz

Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz

29 weeks - yes, shorts in February!

Highway 1, Big Sur

With that, I leave you with this song:

Coldplay - Don't Panic

and these words:

Facing West from California's Shores
-Walt Whitman

Facing west from California's shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity,
the land of migrations, look afar,
Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;
For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,
From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,
Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd,
Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,
(But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?)