Trip to the mountains pika and it's food pile

"Who sees, the ultimate Recipient
of what happens, the One Who is aware
when, in the administrative wing
a clerk returns from noon-day, through
the ointment of mortality
for one strange hour, in all his lustreless life,
has touched his face."

from The Apex Animal
by Margaret Avison

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The Mountains

"the shadow of
the mist shall yet
with but the time
this granite fret"

from Sky Spindrift
by James Wreford

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Trip to Drum - Fall colours

Wring all your memories for the future

Out of this hour and this warm wind-

Hands clasped tight, eyes gazing over

The valley of autumn choked with sun,

from The Soldier's Settlement

by John Glassco

Trip to the mountains

 

    "Only to life have the cedars learned to attend."

     from Epithalamion in Time and Place

     by Roy Daniels

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Trip to Drum - Dancing Through the Last Days of Sept

 

"Open up the window

I'm breathing in the last of September

I can feel the wind blow

and the late summer sky is like a giant ember

everything is turning into gold"

Last Days of September by Henrik Nagy feat Frida Wallin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSdBF1ywKs

Mountain Road Trip - Continued

                       "The practical importance of the preservation of our forests
                       is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. "

                       - John Muir

Road Trip - We found a lovely spot for lunch with friends

 

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

― John Burroughs