wonderment {words by Lord Byron}

photograph taken on a personal pilgrimage on the Historic Columbia River Highway February 22, 2015

 

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

  There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society where none intrudes,

  By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

  I love not man the less, but Nature

more,

From these our interviews, in which I 

steal

  From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the universe, and feel

What I can ne'er express, yet can not all

conceal.

               ~ From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron

With gratitude,
Joanna