It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame…
Joy is there Everywhere.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Spring Surprise, Yucca and McWay Fall, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur Coast, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission