Ahh...to be surrounded by big beautiful green leafy trees!

Looking down into the Rio Grande Bosque

The groves were God's first temples.
- William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn

Something I greatly appreciate here in Albuquerque

are the abundance of huge, beautiful, living breathing trees.

Listening to the rustle of leaves when the wind is blowing like today

reminds me of my childhood.

Hiking in the pine forests in Arizona or here in New Mexico,

or walking along a grove of trees along the Rio Grande...

either way for me

it's exercise and serenity in one...

refreshing and reviving.

There's nothing like trees to give one life.

In the White Mountains in Arizona