I find this quite timely as just a couple days ago, I left a message to juniperb on the MARY SUMMER RAIN 2 thread, about something I had seen....I'll bring it over here, and share....

I just witnessed the most incredible sunset!

*sigh*

God is truly an artist!

Sitting in my computer room this evening, looking out my large window (which affords me a sweeping view of the surrounding landscape), I felt truly blessed as I experienced one of nature's most gloriously spectacular shows....

It was almost too beautiful to describe, and left me very moved..and privileged to have been witness to such an awesome sight. It was pretty close to mystical for me...

As juni knows, I live on an Indian reservation here in Michigan.

My house is situated on a high hill which has been cleared of an old cherry orchard (which no longer bore fruit), to build homes for those of us in our tribe who choose to live on the reservation.

Along the edge of the hill looking west, stands a line of trees that were not cleared, but they are not so thick as to block the veiw beyond, which is pretty great! The trees appear as silhouetts since the leaves are not in full bloom yet, allowing one to see beyond the black outlines of their trunks and branches...

.....and...

.....beyond my silhouetted tree lined hill lies a valley which stretches about two miles west to the Lake Michigan shore where I can see parts of the lake as well as tree covered bluffs....very beautiful....

And every evening as the sun goes down (when it's not cloudy), I am witness to God's spectacular artwork. No two sunsets are alike, but I can be assured that they are always breath taking......

I am a very lucky person!

Thank you Great Spirit!

Miigwetch Gitchi Manitou!