I don’t see how anybody could spend a 70-degree evening under a canopy of spring leaves from massive trees — in the twilight after sunset — and not feel as though he’s communing with something in Nature that’s greater than he or she alone. I took pictures of a tree near my house at sunset and then drove home and spent the twilight in the yard with Lucy just feeling the joy of experiencing a stunning Creation as it unfolded all around me. It was another reminder that there is beauty everywhere — and that the beauty connects us to something greater than we are — if we just open our eyes and pay attention.