For thirty years, my snow days looked a lot like this : Now, they look a lot more like this : Auburn Environmental Park Flaming Geyser State Park Mom and Dad’s House (Yes, we let Dad win … ) Finally relaxing into it. I think…
I like to think I’m a hopeful person. Packing up a few small necessities this morning I was filled with these three things: 1) Hope that the gate would be open early 2) Hope that I could make it…
… but who can choose just one ? The gate at Longmire was open this morning when I got there at 8:45. I drive a Civic Hybrid and I had no trouble at all on the drive up to Paradise. I stopped at Narada Falls…
After a holiday season full of activity, I am relishing these few quiet days. I’ve been wondering what word might emerge for me for the coming year and it began to come into focus this morning. This one seemed to choose me, rather than the…
Today was a good Monday. I didn’t have to work, the forecast was for sunny and cold and I had the whole day ahead of me. Perfect. I shut off my alarm before it could annoy me at 4:30 am, which in turn caused me…
Tuesday. Nothing really special about that day as weekdays go. I’ve survived the re-entry of Monday and it’s way too early to start thinking about the weekend. Or is it ? It’s my Dad’s birthday today. 82 years young and feisty as ever. If you…
It is definitely winter in Washington. I see it in the branches of the fig trees. Plump green figs of late summer now reduced to shriveled orbs. Some of the leaves blackened by an early freeze still litter the grounds where I do my…
