Lovely, Dark and Deep

Because my play practices (see “The Play’s the Thing”) start around 6:00 or 6:30 p.m. and run till about 8:30 or so, I’m walking the trail home in the dusk far more often than I’m used to. Our daylight extends about 5 minutes each day, so that most practice evenings, I can usually make it all the way home without my headlamp. It’s that word “usually” that sometimes becomes problematic.

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A Sweet Spring Day

One would expect that we who live in the temperate rainforest might cherish sunny days above all others. I find that is not particularly true. There’s something about a rainy day that soothes my soul.

So, yesterday, when our generally sunnier weather of late turned gently wet, we found ourselves welcoming the change.

A sweet spring morning in April (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

A sweet spring morning in April (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

The morning could hardly be sweeter, full of bird song, the aroma of alder buds and other blooms, the water flat calm, except when broken by sea lions or loons.

Wet or dry, we love living here!

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