Musings

A quick late-day library expedition yielded not only books but also a bit of sunset sky-color. That we could not otherwise see from the house.

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Sometimes the view from wifi elevations (that is, above 10K feet, at least on our Delta flight) is stunning.

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This morning we got up and cleaned our way out the door, including shoveling the light snow accumulation so the sun and solar radiation (or whatever) could remove the icier layer beneath, and descended back to sea level. We had long-time friends over for dinner (kind of G to spearhead the cooking—steelhead and roasted veg on the grill), and told stories and laughed—the best!

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Alaska Rose descending to await RR bridge opening….

Wrong time of the year for the salmon to be jumping up the fish ladder—except for maybe a few steelheads—although we did find some action in the Ballard Locks—two locks, actually. We always call them the Ballard Locks because they’re on the south edge of the Ballard neighborhood, but they’re really the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks.

By the way, that little building off to the right of the ship in this view, and on the spit between the locks, has a rosebush at each end (that irregular shape behind the guardrail), firmly rooted in a slot about four inches wide and less than a foot long. Such tenacity plants have!

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And if you’re really lucky, you get phenomenal late-day light on the Cascades—with the scent of a Guru-late-day pot of coffee infusing the air.

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In Seattle, if you hold your mouth right, you can have alpineglow with your coffee.

My SIL ate early, before heading to the salt-mines, and had quinoa flakes (like oatmeal) with her coffee. Tasted like quinoa.

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Grey day (pretty much) here, so I’m reaching back to early this month, when Kel and I walked the wilds around the Dartmouth golf course. Looks a bit like a shot in a Peter Jackson movie, no? Instead: New Hampshire.

Pondered gremolata for a bit today…for the Xmas menu.

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We took advantage of the sunny morning to hike around this golf field course, which has been prepared for the expected onslaught of cross-country skiers, with little fences around the greens, etc. We walked the mud paths around all the sensitive places, and found a few edge-spots where the keepers dump boughs and other organic discards.

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Macro. Imagine the peaks off in the distance that are obscured by airborne snow (e.g., Killington, Washington). View from fire tower (above tree-tops).

Oh, it’s not surprising that I collapse the macro and the micro—I know that I’m being honest when I say that I do cross between these two poles in perspectives as I go through daily life.

For better or worse.

Soooo many micro-moments I could pick from today…I’ll stick with an outdoor example—fern and moss. (Notice that the white stuff goes unmentioned.)

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I found this view…arresting—a little shade-dappled, but still compelling.

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