If you need a reminder of the glories that we've been given in the natural world, Gerard posts a couple of very fine mementoes of his All Saints Day expedition through the Maryland countryside. Or look to Buck Mountain in the Shenandoah. John Bell is providing vivid and evocative pictures to accompany his Notes From a Hillside Farm.



And here's the Giant Stellar Nursery.



There is no contradiction here. The violet sadness and melancholy that can mark All Souls Day is rightly balanced by reminders of the natural glories that God has placed before us and within which we live. The glories which, in their beauty sometimes majestic and sometimes homely, are also intimations of the day when we will be raised incorruptible and live in the presence of The King in His Beauty.



The King Of Love My Shepherd Is