Winters Return at Lone Rock Point

This beautiful video kind of encapsulates Lone Rock Point.  Not in the sense that it was dark and gloomy that day, but the fact that it asks the question, do we have power? 

Lone Rock Point showcases the extreme power of time.  How humans are just a tiny piece of the puzzle in our earths history.  We can change what shirt we wear, what shoes we buy, what plane we fly, and many other things (some of which actually have an importance within our daily lives), but in all actuality do we, the human species, have the power to control events?  Lone Rock Point says no.

Wind on the Hill

"No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.

It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.

And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.

So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from

Nobody knows." A.A. Milne

The poem above reflects an emotion experience I had while visiting Lone Rock Point.  This trip was more than just a photo class field trip.  I was able to get away for a moment reflect on nature and its wonders.  Geology is one of those things that is just so hard to grasp because it functions on such a different time scale than our brains can process.  This day and age we are inpatient when we have to wait at a red light for 1 minute.  But think of landmass and tectonic plates. One minute, one year, one thousand years is nothing to "them."  It is these mysteries of time and natural occurrences that really make me reflect about myself and my sense of place on this planet.  Even though I was such a short time to experience the wonders of this world, I will make everyday count, because to me 100 years is a long time!