{"id":1716,"date":"2015-03-28T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2015\/03\/28\/the-painted-hills"},"modified":"2021-09-10T05:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:32:02","slug":"the-painted-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"The Painted Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

It only took one picture for me to know I would be traveling to the Painted Hills<\/a> of Oregon. What I didn’t realize was the time it would take to get there from the city of Portland. After driving for four hours through the beauty of central Oregon though, a lone dirt road made it’s way up to this jaw dropping viewpoint.<\/p>\n\n

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The colors of this artwork that has been 39 million years in the making was mine alone for most of my time here. You hike with the occasional crow, maybe a rabbit or two, as rain clouds race along the skyline. Being alone gives one the freedom to truly relax with nature.<\/p>\n

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The call of our Native American brothers is strong in this place. I hear them in the trees and wind, I bend a knee and listen for wisdom from the Great Spirit. A calm bathes my skin ever so lightly.<\/p>\n

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“Meditate my brother, let your worries go”<\/i>

<\/i>I find it easy to listen, to chill, decompress, by myself. \u00a0I find enlightenment with the small stacks of stones built by those that came before me.<\/p>\n

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Mmmmmm…..I add to the pile of stones, and return from whence I came.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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