The Grand Canyon and I make a lovely couple!
I am extremely fortunate to have booked a bed at Phantom Ranch last minute and will be hiking down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon tomorrow. I have heard such wonderful stories of this experience and I am sure it will be amazing. I’ll fill you in when I hike back out!
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, Ansel Adams
…How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.” – Ansel Adams
I had Ansel Adams on my mind today as I drove down 395 east of Yosemite. Continue reading
It is time to move on again, I leave Reno tomorrow. It has been such an enlightening time. I have been so spoiled with amazing food being prepared for me, dogs to snuggle, lots of outdoor exercise, friends with delightful and insightful conversation, and I also was able to practice my solo show twice before supportive friends. Continue reading
It was a long, winding drive but I said good-bye to Yosemite and arrived in Reno last night. I’m catching up with family and friends and getting dog therapy from two darling Brittanys. I listened to John Denver’s music while in Yosemite and he summed up my thoughts better than I can, so I’ll leave it to him. Continue reading
For me this is the most beautiful place on earth. I have truly taken on my blog name and meandered without much pre-planning (yes, I have a map and sought advice from a patient ranger), but I have left the … Continue reading
…makes the whole world kin.” (Shakespeare but taken horribly out of context!). I finally made it to Yosemite, after stopping at every viewpoint and overlook along the way, enjoying perfect, sunny weather. Now that I’m snuggled in my depressingly dark, but blessedly clean condo Continue reading
Today was a day to meander back to my home town of St. Helena, CA. The photo to the left is where I was raised, a home in the vineyards, among the dirt clods, and grapevines. The soil here seems different from in Seattle, drier, lighter-colored, clumpier. Funny to be nostalgic about dirt, but there you have it, a small town girl raised on a ranch and dirt was a big part of the experience. You walk differently on freshly disked earth, carefully, tramping with higher steps, testing your balance, and it has a fresh, weedy, damp smell like nothing I’ve experienced in Washington. Continue reading
I’m getting practice at the start of this journey in going with the flow. I read this morning in Women Who Run with the Wolves that “if we were to name only one thing that makes the Wild Woman what she is, it would be her responsiveness.” Explained further this is the ability to adapt to change, being innovative, flexible, quick-sighted. Continue reading
My “relationship” to Henry David Thoreau started back in high school when my favorite teacher of all time, Lowell Young, quoted him with passages like… “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” I have always wanted to make a difference, live deliberately and not come to the end of my days with regrets. My blog name reflects this in borrowing again from Thoreau.
I was born upon thy bank, river
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever,
At the bottom of my dream.
It is a time for searching, dreaming and meandering. Today was Continue reading
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