I’ve upped my hiking game. New Jersey is actually a stunningly beautiful state! I know! Not the first thing you think of when you think of NJ! This trip was to Dismal Harmony Natural Area. The state may have beautiful spaces, but names…I’m told it’s because it’s where the Dismal and Harmony streams meet. OK…

It is stunning beautiful even in the winter. The structure of the bare trees in the late afternoon sunlight.

And the reflection of those trees and that sunlight reflected in the stream along with the afternoon blue sky.

There is something peaceful and scared here.

I love the woods. It’s a place where there is quite. Especially now. When we are working from home, schooling from home, everything from home, getting out and in nature, is needed and good for one’s mental health..