Incoherent thoughts as I ride

Is gmail down for anyone else, or am I just lucky?

Sleeping, recently-bathed collies resemble rumpled piles of unfolded laundry more than they resemble anything else.

Getting to hour 2 on the trainer, and my body sez, "ow!" It will be a long, uphill ride.

When I am at my clearest, most honest communication with my heart and my life, I realize that I never truly come down off the mountain.

Images from a height

Here in this forest, the soil is dry and the tan oaks are coming back, recovering from the disease that has ravaged them for several years with soft, fuzzy new growth. It was overcast this morning, and the tops of the redwood and doug fir I am currently staring at are moving restlessly with the first breaths of Autumn. Another year is getting ready to turn.

Elsewhere, the mountains remain high, remote and rarefied.

Here are the rest of my backpacking pictures, Ansel Adams Wilderness...was it barely over a week ago?

Bird people, I need help with another ID. I think he's some sort of warbler; he's, uh, several pictures down, somewhere in there.

The Minarets


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