New Zealand - In the Hands of Mother

I've done it. Experienced the happy-hippie life. Bought a van, that I called home. Decorated it, and launched the cruise...My garden ? A shore, a field, a forest...Whatever was the mood of the day.

The lesson New Zealand offered me, I wish I could give it back to all of you as a simple download on this blog. A mind-set everybody should be entitled to lock and cherish. An absolute, unconditional, non-questionable respect to the power of Nature. This country isn't about humans. Only very few of them crossed my way. It's been true silence, living like an hermit, mesmerized everyday by a Nature's showcase. Perfection.
As cheesy as it will sound, my friends, I felt everyday like her son. Like we were all its siblings. She is our Mother. Of us all. As much as we like to look down at it, she decides, breeds and feeds. Walk in a forest, once, slowly, and just listen. It breathes. It moves. It grows. It sleeps...As alive as we are. If not more. And being in her arms, for so long, felt safe and warm. Well. Warm. You see what I mean...

To Laura, her housemates, Tracey and her family for the human dimension of the discovery...

For once, the pictures aren't about people...She deserves it.
1- As an Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594106746613/

2- As a Slideshow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594106746613/show/