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Borrowed Paradise: Lake LaCrosse Trek {Sip 3: Serenity}
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The West and Texas. Lake LaCrosse Trek {Sip 3: Serenity}. October 10, 2016. We share the sunrise. I strip and plunge into the crystal waters, nerves aflame, now running through the meadow naked and exulting as the sky drinks the water from my goosebumped skin. The sun showers us in warm kisses until the only thing we can do is drift asleep in her soft lap. Upslope across wandering streams. Reaching the ridge, I see it. Mount Anderson's silent mass—Great Tombstone Mountain! It's clear now to whom those le...
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Borrowed Paradise: Lake Lacrosse Trek {Sip 1: Joy}
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The West and Texas. Lake Lacrosse Trek {Sip 1: Joy}. September 22, 2016. 8221; Feet on soil, and it's one step after the other. The dress of right now is by far the finest, and each second is a celebration! The sight is all we need to finish out our day's work. Make Two Bear late, with smiling exhaustion and ravenous appetites—campsite flush with fresh huckleberry bliss. The early moonlight darkly lights the slope across from our camp. For us, it's not yet risen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Borrowed Paradise: National Park Service - Centennial and Legacy!
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The West and Texas. National Park Service - Centennial and Legacy! August 25, 2016. Today is the National Park Service's 100th birthday. What a codger! A National Park in Botswana and the second largest game reserve on the planet. I was fortunate enough to spend several days there in back in 2014 as part of a college research trip. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pettit Lake - Golden Matriarchs. Pettit Lake - June's Kiss. Lake LaCrosse Trek {Sip 3: Serenity}. Mt Ellinor - Perseid Dawn.
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Borrowed Paradise: Lake Lacrosse Trek {Sip 2: Gladness}
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The West and Texas. Lake Lacrosse Trek {Sip 2: Gladness}. September 26, 2016. Camp broken under starscape crevasses—firs' towering darkness. Racing the rising sun up the final push of the pass, make it just a little too on time for the red of first light against the far peaks. Flurry of photos, flustered, and on to breakfast. Long day with the old growth spirits—t hrough sol. Sacred forests of trees with bark like scales of an old dragon who long ago sat down. Feet grow into the earth. Even with our dawd...
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Borrowed Paradise: Pears - for Nikki, Katie, Julie, and Pat
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The West and Texas. Pears - for Nikki, Katie, Julie, and Pat. September 1, 2016. For Nikki, Katie, Julie, and Pat - Thank You. We left in morning,. Sun at our backs,. Roaring down the coast,. Howling and skin exulting. In the sunshine and sylvan air. Swirling in through open windows. Riding high in the saddle of. The Great Vehicle of Creative Destruction. Coyote, Kitsune, Raven, three thousand blessings). In the way only bodies know,. Over tide's fingers and clearcut hills. Timber ships passing down below.
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Borrowed Paradise: Kalaloch Beach 4: Life all the way down
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The West and Texas. Kalaloch Beach 4: Life all the way down. August 10, 2016. Cormorant, resting wings drying. Clap of ocean spray! Otters play in crashing waves that would kill a human. The ocean's depths churn on, unseen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pettit Lake - Golden Matriarchs. Pettit Lake - June's Kiss. Lake LaCrosse Trek {Sip 3: Serenity}. Mt Ellinor - Perseid Dawn. Lake Lacrosse Trek {Sip 2: Gladness}. First Steps: Olympic Mountains (Part 2). First Steps: Olympic Mountains.
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Borrowed Paradise: First Steps: Olympic Mountains
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The West and Texas. First Steps: Olympic Mountains. August 3, 2016. Early, never early enough. Trailhead quiet save the talk of car-campers waking across the road, voices soft as morning light. Sky clear, but weather report said expect storms. Permit box empty and worry of crowded trails growing, double check gear and out. Skokomish – deer steps. Down on the sandbar, nowhere. To be but right here. Spring from mossy windfall trunk—. Sing a collective melody in solid pitches, wondrous sound surrounding.
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Borrowed Paradise: Mt. Ellinor - Perseid Dawn
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The West and Texas. Mt Ellinor - Perseid Dawn. August 16, 2016. How long is a moment? Look northeast on a late summer night. In the trail of a falling star it's all laid bare. Dark flowers, above. If they long for their natural Northern Rockies in some vague way, for not having to dig away from the heat quite so much. If they feel in that way the burden of their presence here, the karma we've given them in our uninvited meddling. They too were drawn here, by forces beyond sight, beyond memory, to...First...
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