I took this photo while out strolling round the village. From one of the small bridges you can see the stream winding its way among the trees, creating an astonishingly beautiful, green scene.
When I looked at this photo at home I thought it looked like an Impressionist painting, but, really, no art quite achieves the beauty of Nature. We can re-present the world to ourselves and others but our lives are lived in a continuous flow of energies, materials, sensations, thoughts and feelings.
Every single one of these moments is unique and no two of us standing on the same bridge at the same time will have identical experiences. We are all influenced by, you could say created by, the cumulative flow of personal, subjective moments which we weave together to tell that singular, unique story that only we can tell.
These are moments of awe and wonder, and Nature has the power to generate these, most healing of all, experiences.
This stream, by the way, flows from “La Source”, which emerges from the subterranean waterways coursing through France. That, too, contributes to my experience of awe and wonder.
Heroes Not Zombies 
My goodness, that first photo, utterly gorgeous – Monet, eat your heart out!
I know…..exactly what I thought!
And, by the way, I meant to type “Impressionist” not “expressionist”….I’ve corrected it now!