Happiness is not a matter of intensity
but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
-- Thomas Merton

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Great Sand Dunes

We spent the morning in Great Sand Dunes National Park. The mountains are in the back, the sand dunes in the middle and the prairie land in the front. We got up early so that we could see the shadows on the dunes. Brett climbed to the top of one of the dunes while I watched him through the binoculars. He wrote me a message in the sand, "Hi Mom." Then we headed to Zapata Falls. You actually have to hike through a creek bed in order to get back to the falls. I didn't make it all the way back but Brett took some nice pictures.

By the time we left the area it was after 11 a.m. We drove to Potwin, Kansas tonight to stay with my sister and her husband. We didn't get here until after 10 p.m. Tomorrow we will visit my father in the Cedars skilled nursing facility. Brett has not seen his grandfather for several years and he really wants to see his grandpa before he goes to England this fall.

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