Ready to roll….

“I sauntered about from rock to rock, from grove to grove, from stream to stream…I asked the boulders where they had been and whither they were going….” John Muir

the flow of the waterfall…

“Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness!” Mehmet Murat ildan

Standing alone…

“People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.” ~ Lionel Fisher, ‘Celebrating Time Alone

Pirate’s Cove Point, Oregon Coast

Winter doldrums…

“We need the tonic of wildness…” Thoreau

Elk statue atop Caswell Sculptures in Troutdale, Oregon.

a vision…

“Authenticity is the language of visionaries.” Andrena Sawyer

past times…

Strive as one may, one’s past times (hobbies/passions) can be relegated to the bin of past times. Life’s struggles, relentless at times, change the mind’s focus and when the pressures let up, not surprisingly those old hobbies seem distant. I have vowed to make every effort, through the Winter doldrums, to prepare for fly fishing, fly tying, photographing the garden, just plain getting out to reconnect. Inertia sets in and the mind seems to retreat to a lazy state. 

spiny critter…

in the California desert…