Getting Lost,Road Trip, Beauty

Yesterday was a wonderful day. Took a much needed road trip actually my first, since the new car. Evan and I went to Shenks Ferry, but not before getting lost where there were signs that said "We Have Guns and We will Party". I think that was down somewhere down toward Conestoga I have no clue it was a nice decilte area though. Found Safe Harbor because we missed our turn to Green Hill Road. That was fun though that was plan B if we could not get to Shenks Ferry.

So we headed back to where we thought Green Hill might be, found it. Found Shenks Ferry. It seemed like an eternity going down the horrible gravel road but alas we found the trail head. So we parked it and gathered all our drawing supplies, lunch and things we needed for the day. It was so beautiful Evan and I were both in awe on how overgrown everything was but it still had the untouched sense as well. So we walked about twenty to twentyfive minutes to the tunnel. And plonked our stuff down and walked around a bit to find the best drawing place. We spent the whole day critiquing each other and it was both the best we had ever drawn too. We were both trying to answer the question that was given What is beauty and we both think that we have a general sense of what it might be.

While we were sitting at the tunnel drawing a Franklin and Marshall bio class was trudging through the stream and mearuing the height and every so often the professor would come over to see how we were making out and would engage in small talk. I found out that the professor knows one of my ex teachers from high school the water bio teacher Kerri Snavely. We then got back to our drawings finished them around 5 in the evening.

Sitting at the tunnel entrance we both notice the creepy effects it gave. At the end of the tunnel we would notice it would take on a braoque like lighting to and foggy quality. Every so often we would feel a blast of warm air and then a burst of cold which elevated the erriee (sp?) effect.
Evan and I walking back both that a big rock was a bear. That was pretty funny. Evan stepped on a small snake it was grey and had a orange dot on its head. I teased him and said now the poor thing will have a massive headache, since he stepped on it.

We met a very interesting 71 year old man asking us what we were doing there. As he was putting his tin can of a canoe up on his mircades. I was a bit disturbed by what he was wearing though... which made me want to walk away and load up the car. He was telling us how the stream level is raise up and how he canoes over to the other side to the river to swim. Oh and of course how old his canoe is too. Evan and I walking back were kind of envious on how care free he seemed, doing his own thing taking his time. He gave us this tid bit to think about " Take your time you have all the time in the world, and Be safe. " Thinking back I think that is what is beautiful the fact that people can just let things run by without thinking about anything else going to a place to not have a care in the world.

We left Shenks Ferry... Some how missed a turn somewhere ended up near a rikiety old bridge in peaque which seemed like it was near wind cave. Some how found 324 north took a wrong turn again and ended up near a steel plant in Peaque. Turned around and somehow ended up in the city or close to.

Now you say what was this post really for... I was thinking of was how to link beauty to philosopy art craft and science. If there was even a link or is beauty too vague to even do something like that. I think I will have to write about in the next post.