Preparations

It seems as if life is a series of preparations. Going towards something, or letting go of something, or of nothing that is still something. Today the sun is hiding, I look at the waiting list for the class I think I want to take and ponder the class that I am registered in..."let the universe decide" was the advice...advice I give all the time...so I am sitting looking at our misty day...thanking the maker I was able to get an acupuncture appointment earlier for my allergies...on the way home saw a Barred Owl flying down the road...thinking of school...already missing former classmates...and finally relaxing about which class is what and why and am getting ready to go where I have not gone before...lol...adventure is a marvelous activity...think I'll head to campus tomorrow and pick up that library book on the Mountaineers...

Peace out campers...

In the meantime take a walk after dinner and look around...you might see something new...

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir (1838 - 1914)

Well my favorite quote, very zen very present, very much what I need to look at when pondering the folly of mankind...

This is a shot I took last fall on the trail below Myrtle Falls, Paradise, MORA... what you can't see in this one infinitesimal shot are the different botanical zones that meet in the area. Glacial water, volcanic rocks, flora and fauna that have evolved for eons, sub-alpine meeting alpine, clumps of trees that hunker together to provide shelter for small plants and protection from the intense winters, huckleberries the first people would come to harvest, corn lilies, hemlock, fir, marmots, pica, jays all covering one of Washingtons newest geothermal vulcan exhibits.

This image is on my desktop to remind me to look outside wherever I am and ponder how everything is connected...and I mean everything...do not exclude human kind or your neighbor or the dog or the red shafted flicker outside your window, nor the Barred Owl that hoots in the forest even during the day... go outside and sit and look at what is there within the few feet that is around you, really look...

ok campers enough wax rhapsodic, time to check the tomatoes and the kale...in the meantime, take a magnifying glass or binoculars and see a little bit closer to your world.

Peace out,