The marvel of beauty, whether natural or created by man, astounds me more each step of our journey, azaleas in the Japanischer garten, the eyes of a beautiful baby, the snowy and craggy Alps, the carved canyons of fast clear water, gentle streams, swans, jumbled mossy boulders, tall and stately beech trees, early morning bird song, flowering chestnuts, my wife's smile... all leave me amazed and in thought somehow of the intellectual meaning of a Creator of beauty from the atomic to the stellar view which exists to spite the dark in this world.
