Lion's Gate

Lion's Bridge 

The idea that place perceives itself through us as Lane describes makes being fully present in a place important. For place to have significant meaning through us, it requires focus and to actually experience instead of just visit a place. Before visiting Lion's Bridge, I had already seen the sunset, but I do not think I ever took a moment to be silent to watch the sun lower. The day we went to Lion's bridge, water always holds a drawing and rather solemn presence. In the excerpt from John Gatta's Making Nature Sacred there is a line that describes how, " God's free- flowing Creation mingles the gentle current of a neighborhood creek with Melvillean apparitions of strife in the raging sea" and the concept that, " Nature runs wild because God, too, is an untamed lover of freedom"(213) makes the waters calmness only a face. The water how ever still now, will be wild the next time nature decides to run "wild" as the description describes. The trees nearest to the shore are the first to be affected by natures wrath at certain times. When taking in the idea of how calm the water, sunset, and even nature life seemed, I couldn't help but wonder when the next storm would appear on the horizon. The horizon while the sun set was a greenish, colorful tinge and glowed with wonder. Perhaps when fully present and silent, one takes in more detail of a simple, yet beautiful occurrence such as the sun set.