The long and the short of it...

You know how it is when the days just seems to slip through your fingers...
I have spent a lot of time on the phone and writing letters lately.
It saddens me when one comes back unexpectedly--and hope it is only a USPS mistake.

My dad was in a car accident the last week. He is okay, but his car is totaled and it certainly rattled him. Not a good way for a trip to have coffee with friends to end--but we are so mindful it could have been much worse.
After all the paperwork, the waiting to see what the insurance would do, then the looking for a new-to-him car, he called tonight to say he is in possession of his second "the-last-car-I-will-own." All this while I am reading the wonderful book, "Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road" a truly awesome book full of life, questions, relationship of oneself to the adventure of the road.

Tomorrow we have a family/friend group walking in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Bellevue WA. We each walk with a variety of names and faces imprinted in our hearts. And, we pray for good weather! Never stop hoping. More soon.

Home again--more or less...

Sometimes the journey home is longer than the miles traveled imply. This is such a time. I return with fresh air in my lungs and while I have rested and laughed, walked and eaten well, I can feel I never fully put down my weariness. I walked among the tall trees and sat by, and slightly in the river on one particularly hot afternoon. I didn't fish--but ate fish one night from Domke Lake...

today was Sabino Canyon day

Today the guys went to a spring training game--Go Mariners! (they didn't) and my friend and I went off to Sabino Canyon. We rode a open shuttle (complete with narration of the canyon and it's history) on the way up and walked back down--- 3.7 miles. It was wonderful. Bridges, little sandy beaches amid huge rocks with water flowing over and making pools in lots of places...trees, cacti, sheer cliffs and rock faces...but not much shade. We drank water all the way down and sat it eat some trail mix on a gigantic round rock above a pool of water....stream running in from one side and out down and away on the other side. Beautiful sky, white clouds came and went. All the while we had a nice breeze to keep us mostly cooled off. More giving thanks! More spectacular views and feeling very tiny in nature. Many pictures for memories.