Up North

It had been quite a few years since we have been to the "North Shore". It was a real treat to go up north last week and find so much unchanged. Just being able to take the day and go was a treat. Being able to go and come back the same day so there was no need to stay in a hotel was another treat. It seems I enjoyed the North Shore more now than in years past. The water seemed bluer and the town not quite the old dirty town I remembered it as. Looking for Agates is still as relaxing as it was years ago. The simple pleasures of hiking in the woods alongside a river with waterfalls here and there really help to bring peace and sanity back into life. I understand why environmentalists want to protect our beautiful parks. It is not that the rest of us want to destroy them. It is not that we don't apprectiate them. I remember when we went to Hawaii and saw the whales and endangered turtles, I could understand why people gather together to rescue beached whales. Our world is really amazing and beautiful. It is so good to know too, that the whole world is not at war, or poverty striken, corrupt,or sick. There still is much that is good in this world of ours.