I LOVE KEN BURNS' FILMS

I'm sitting here tonight watching the brilliant film by Ken Burns;
The National Parks:  America's Best Idea.

Call me a geek but I love history.  I've been blessed to visit a few of our Nation's parks.
Remember we own them.  I just watched a section about the Great Smokey Mountains.
The U. S. Government wouldn't buy the land to save it and left it up to the people of the states it straddled, Tennessee and North Carolina.  Ken's film is broken up into the different stories of each of your National Parks.  It tells the stories of the people who had passion and drive to save these treasures for future generations. 

I've been blessed in my life to visit the Smokey's when I was a child.

In the 70's we visited Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.  Our Uncle Skip was a cowboy and he and his wife Karen lived on a ranch with a view of the Tetons.  They lived near the old cabin where they shot the classic movie Shane. 

When I moved west I visited The Grand Canyon.   I thought I would just "run up" and spend a 1/2 day or so at the south rim and then be on my way to Los Angeles.  Not!  I was amazed by it stunning beauty and was overwhelmed with emotion.  That night was the harvest moon rising over the Grand Canyon in the eastern sky.  I will never forget seeing this orange moon hanging large on the horizon, the autumn air crisp and chilly after the sun set behind us.  This is probably the place I will have my ashes scattered.  And it will be on the full moon that always comes the around the first week of October, very close to October 6th, the anniversary of my mother's death.

Yosemite, the Northern Redwoods, Sequoia National Park, Mt. Rainer in Washington State, The Badlands and Mt. Rushmore, Pike's Peak and the Rocky Mountains, Death Valley and just this past winter I saw Joshua Tree.  They have finally made it a National Park.  I've been blessed to see a great number of places.  And there are a ton of parks that I have yet to visit like Mt. St. Helens, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Glazier National Park, Denali.  Care to join me?

Peace and blessings,
GM

Saw this on my search for pictures of the Grand Canyon.
Guess the view was just too overwhelming for momma!