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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

ABC Wednesday: S is for Scenic

Sometimes slipping away for a scenic road trip is soothing for the soul.

I am not sure if the men were soldering the train tracks but let me pretend they are.

I surely do like the scenery in the mountains. My heart soars and my spirit sings.

I used to love to stride and hop across stones in creeks and rivers but even in warmer weather I don't risk that at this point in my life.

I am able to take a lot of steps to reach a particular view, although much more slowly than in years past. The photograph below only shows about 20 percent of the steps we took on this one path. I'm actually more secure on paths with steps than the trickier trails I used to hike on. Some of the other trails on this trip winded through the forest on overgrown dirt, rocks, and root paths which aesthetically I prefer but requires more caution not to slip. I only had one sticky moment where a root tried to trip me but I managed not to fall. Actually Bill steadied me which helped.

If your brakes start slipping it's nice to have a steep incline for runaway trucks. I suppose runaway cars can use it too.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

ABC Wednesday: I is for Ice

Ice storms can be very beautiful although it's irritating when they damage trees and power lines.

The inferior quality of the first two photographs in this post can be blamed on my first cheap digital camera.

Any inferiority in the rest of the photographs has to be blamed on the photographer since they were taken after I got a better digital camera.

In the winter I try to provide the birds with fresh water. I end up with ice blocks on my deck from the frozen water I empty out.

The birds let me know when they are ready for more water because their bird baths are iced over. Sometimes the ice forms in interesting ways.

I don't think I'd ever seen an upright icicle until I spotted this one last winter.

The creek which feeds into Shelley Lake had ice in early January.

The lake also had ice over most of it although much of it was thin ice so not suitable for ice skating.

The neighborhood children did get to go sledding last winter when ice formed on top of the snow.

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