Summer's here!

Summer's Here

Summer's here and we can hike the peaks again,
have lunch and tea on mountaintops, look down

on the backs of circling hawks and laze away
the afternoon watching blue-hazy, distant hills.

Come on! Give up those winter blues. Let's go!
Grease up those boots, find that walking stick.

Get your lungs and legs in shape. And don't forget
what Yuan Mei, said, two hundred years ago:

If you begrudge your feet some pain
you'll miss ten thousand peaks.

~ David Budbill

This post is credited to my friend Laura who sent me the photo yesterday (gotta love those phone photos) when she was hiking Heidelberg, a local favorite, and today she sent me the poem.

Happy Summer!

Happy Baby!

Nephew Sam!
Fun and love!

The camas are abloom!

Yellow-headed blackbird at rest in a field full

of Indian camas (Camassia quamash)

It's that time of year again and I made it down to the Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh on Thursday to catch them in all their glory. Posting a few photos along with a link to an article I did for a local website all about happenings in and around Sun Valley including information about things to see and do, local history and politics, sustainability, the music scene, photography, restaurants, merchants, and local artists and athletes.














Soldier Mountains reach to the sky

Lone death camas
(Zigadenus venenosus)

Local marsh inhabitants

Article written for Sunlisted.com

Season of Change

Is it possible that I haven't posted in three months? My how time flies. Not a single Spring post. As mentioned though it has been a season of change. For myself, I moved back north, started a new job and, and, and...saving that for later though. For now, I just returned from visiting w my family in Vermont and my Mother's garden was just abloom...
































All photos were taken in the garden over the course of a week except the last one of the pansies. The pansies came from the garden but they were inside in a vase.