Okay now that I've ranted (& WILL again I'm sure) I'll rave :)

Okay on with my Raves  not a Rant ~

 

I love this Country, it is one of the most diverse and beautiful places on the entire planet, you can go to Tropical Beaches, to Mountains of excruciating beauty, to the deserts, to Forests that are so old that our great, great, great grandparents could have seen them...(what stories could be told by these most ancient of trees?  what have they seen? heard?) It's beyond comprehension at times I think to even imagine the bounty that is here.

 

There are people that are truly wonderful people, people that help others in their time of need or even in times of abundance.  There are people that give everything they have and of themselves (at time at the price of their lives) to be helpful.  People that are open minded, not caring if one happens to go "against the grain" in society.  People that suffer from illnesses that are incurable yet they still try to bolster others in their own times of tribulation... people whose hearts are full of love, compassion.

 

We have one of the best educational systems in the world (though yes, it does need some help), we have one of the best medical programs in the world here (yes, that could use some help also..and yes, at times you can only use it if you have the $$$). The government isn't ALL bad, though the majority of it is. I just can't get past the word politician without feeling ucky about it LOL.

 

I'm free ~ I'm free to eat what I want, read what I want, say what I want, (though that really isn't the truth in some situations...if I said outwardly in some areas of this country that I was a lesbian, better yet if I mentioned that I was Pagan...I could be shot, murdered, ostracized by society because they are ignorant little cretins) For the most part it's a good thing, a great thing...yes, I'm PROUD to be an American...

I just wish things were better for all of us (the one's that don't all in the "rich" category, those people can afford to pay for their "better") ::yes, I had to get my little slam in there:: LOL.

 

Below are pictures that I've found on the internet, places from all over the Continental U.S. of A.  to show the richness of diversity that our land holds... from Alaska, to the Pacific Northwest, to the Deserts in the Southwest, the Central U.S. of A., the Dakota's, the Northeast, the Southeast ~ it's all beautiful in it's very special way.

 

A Fishing Village in Alaska

 

 

 

A beach in Florida

 

 

A Buffalo in North Dakota

 

 

Deserts & Canyons from the Southwest

 

Cowboy doing the "real thing" in Texas

 

 

A beautiful lake in Massachusetts

 

 

The Cascade Mountain Range that runs from Oregon down into Northern California

 

Multnomah Falls in Oregon

 

 

 

Old Growth Forest in the Pacific Northwest

 

 

Sea Turtle in the Pacific Ocean off of the Coast of Hawaii

 

 

Beautiful Sunflowers from Kansas in the Central part of the U.S.

 

 

 

A Tornado and a Storm that precedes one in Kansas