The beauty of Creation

Copper Beeches

 Here in Highland Perthshire we live in a place of great beauty, rivers, burns, peaceful waters, high mountains and of course the weather that goes with this. Sunshine and showers, howling winds, fierce rain and snow.
But through it all we can see the wonder of creation, 'the world is charged with the  grandeur of God' as Gerald Manley Hopkins says.

I find myself wondering just how much our disconnection from nature really affects us as a species, as we spend more time on computers and in our own private worlds and become isolated from nature, from each other and from all that makes us truly human.

On Monday we walked around a small Lochan just 2 miles from Pitlochry, in a few weeks it will be filled with Water Lillies, on Monday it was quiet and peaceful there, quite warm with just a gentle breeze to ruffle the waters. We watched a Heron fishing in the reeds, ducks and moorhens went about their business, Robins sang to us along the way and flowers bloomed.

By the Lochan

It's no exaggeration to say that today in the woods and in the dappled shadows of the hedgerows carpets of Bluebells are everywhere and if your lucky perhaps a Red squirrel will cross your path. The whole world is alive with new life and growth. It is up to us to understand our place in all this, our interconnectedness to all of creation.