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365 Day Photo Challenge: Day 31 Parkhill Prairie near Blue Ridge

At the raptor center yesterday I was told about the Parkhill Pairie and how wonderful it was. I went to check it out and what I discovered is a history, a peace, a calm.

No one was around, I think I saw one truck in the time I was there and that was when I was leaving. I sat down in the middle of a prairie and could imagine the plains settlers coming across in covered wagons, the indigenous indians and the bison.

I have been left feeling very small in the expanse of the ocean, the mountains or the idea of space but this was just an open expanse of prairie. I watch hawks and vultures rising and falling on a perfect blue horizon. More important than anything, I stopped and listened

It was amazing and I realize even more why the backland prairie is such an amazing ecosystem worth saving.

A silence

A beautiful and unadulterated silence

Blue stem grasses blowing in breezes

Ghosts of ancient Indians and bison

Whispering on winds in winter

I am alone

All I can hear, the cattle screaming

In distance fields

And the crow mocking my silence

God keeps coming through

The last few days

He brings me to a wonderful, magical place

Of bliss

A silence and contentment

Having nothing to do with time

Or circumstance

I see a hawk where it belongs

High and resting on collumns of wind

Rising and falling

Again and again

It is my souls’ compliment

As it dances

And plays in a sky full of possibilities

A contentment I can barely explain

All I can say is nature

Has a magic

A wisdom with only a whisper

Waiting

For those who listen

In an open field

Of silence

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Written by stevelinebaugh

Oil painter and pastel artist, writer, photographer, graphic designer,
originally from New Jersey

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