travels

I am at my brother's house in northern Arizona. I drove from Florida and got to see a lot of country I hadn't seen before. Some very lovely, some very lonely and some very depressing. I had to wonder why people live in places so unsuited for life. Although beautiful some of the southwest is so stark and hostile I wonder why people try to make a life there. I decided that I could happily live anywhere there are some hills and trees, real trees, not the little scrubby trees I saw in North Texas and New Mexico. Northern Mississippi was beautiful. The Pine forests north of the north rim of the Grand Canyon were also beautiful. We are blest to live in a country with such a wealth of beauty and such a variety.