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Part 4

The garden at Giverny was unbelievably beautiful. We spent over 3 hours there, and it was the most peaceful and tranquil place I think I have ever visited.

Our tour guide told us that visiting Giverny on an overcast day, as ours was, is the very best way to see the gardens and to take photographs. I think she was right.

I hope I'm not boring you to death with all these photos of Monet's garden. Trust me when I say that these photographs do not do it justice. I could have spent all day there, if it wasn't for the constant parade of tourists. The peace and solitude gives one a real sense of solace.

Monet and his family lived in a house on this property, which he rented from a local landowner, from May 1883 until his death in December 1926, at the age of 85. He was fortunate to have missed the invasion by Germany, and the occupation of his city of birth, Paris. Realizing this, it causes me to ponder my own demise. They say that for every 100 years, our planet is populated by all new people. If I live until 2037, I will be 100 years old. Everyone born after that time will have inherited what the people of the previous 100 year have left behind as their legacy. And everyone who created that legacy is now gone. While I know that evolution takes eons, it appears that we have cheated this fact, and are evolving into beings capable of possibly causing our species to NOT be the inheritors of the earth. If we as a species continue on our present course, down the road there may not be much worth inheriting. This bothers me, and I wonder what I can do to change this. Isn't it funny that the older you get, you have the time to ponder such things

Perhaps it is as Pete often says it is, and here I paraphrase, Every generation looks back in time and says we are going to hell in a hand basket, but dooms day never seems to come. Perhaps our most valuable trait is the ability to adapt. Change is always a certainty. Will we always be able to adapt? I suppose that depends upon the speed of change.

Well, enough philosophy. I am certainly no Socrates, but I can very well appreciate his way of thinking.