Atlanta Idaho Back Country Bike Trip

This weekend a few of us left Boise on our Dual Sport bikes and headed for Atlanta, ID.  It is nestled just to the west of  the Sawtooth wilderness mountains.  Few people go there as it's about as far from anywhere there is in Idaho.  Established as a mining town in 1864 it still has much of the same charm and old buildings as any very old town.  Surprisingly there are still quite a few people who live up there full time.  There is a nice B&B there called Beavercreek Lodge... and a very nice hot springs that is just big enough for one party...not very big and just out of town far enough to be private.

 This is on a mountain top over looking Atlanta with the Sawtooth wilderness in the background

On the way there I was overcome with all the beauty and wonderful smells of spring.  The many colors of flowers blooming on the hillsides all around and the overpowering sweet smells of blooming locust trees.  And it hit me... a short and poignant epiphany...  I came upon the thought that one bright and beautiful day in the future, I will have the opportunity to meet our Heavenly Father and feel of His welcoming embrace.  He will have a fragrance of sage or pine, or of a summer breeze just before the rain.  And then he will introduce me to his beautiful wife - and she will have one of the many beautiful smells of locust blossom, or lavender, or of roses.  I realized then that this mother earth has been graced by all of her favorite fragrances.