Monday, January 14, 2008

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Well, it took a bit longer to update this than planned.  I have been hiking a lot, I just have not had the urge to write about it recently.  Today however, I went on a pleasant hike, with my pad and pen, ready and eager to jot down some thoughts.  I hiked up hill for about 25 min off trail and came to a gorgeous old Maple.  I dug out a hole, laid down some sticks, and sat down.  The atmosphere was brilliant, the snow was deep, the light was nice, the temperature moderate.  I leaned back, opened the pad and began to write.  And then learned either my pen has frozen up, or it was dead.  No matter, I couldn’t write at all and all my thoughts drifted away anyways.  I sat for a while, hoping to see some animals, but had no luck as usual.  I put my snow shoes back on, walked further up the hill to the crest of our mountain and wandered around a little.  The light was nice and made some interesting compositions with shadows.  I also came across not only some snowshoe hare prints, but coyote prints following them.  (I can only assume the coyote was following the hare, and not vice versa).  I too followed the prints hoping to come across something, but to no avail.  I called it a day.  Danny decided to pose for me.  I also have included a little map of my area.