Hills

June 20

I am thankful for hills. Even though I have always been a "flatlander", I have always loved rolling hills. To me they are just so beautiful and the perfect place to put a golf course. The presence of hills on a golf course adds another variable in the third demension that has to be accounted for when taking your stance, lining up your shot, and adjusting your swing to the land.

This photo is the eighteenth hole at The Bluffs in St. Francisville, taken near the tee. The course is built on some of the most beautiful tree lined rolling hills anywhere in Louisiana. The eighteenth is a faily short dogleg left par five which runs along the bluff overlooking Thompson Creek to the left and rises uphill all the way to the green. The houses to the right have a gorgeous view on the bluff overlooking the hole and the creek.

the hills are alive

(with apologies to Julie Andrews)

the hills are alive

with the sound of beauty

whispering in your ears

of your heartfelt duty

rise and fall

with the flow of the earth

reminding us evermore

of our place of new birth.

© rt tulley