“The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.”
-Jeff Hendrickson
Inverted Reflections
Leave a reply
Don’t Let Them Fool You, PT Is No Joke!
My first PT session.
Yesterday I started PT. My daughter, who is 17 and has had the “pleasure” of participating in some quality PT told me that I would be in some pain after the first session. She was right. She was also quick to remind me of the time when she complained about the pain after a PT session and was told to, “suck it up.” So when she asked how my ankle felt when I got home, I told her. Her response??? You guessed it-“Suck it up dad.”
Since it was an initial visit, I spent about twenty minutes being questioned, then another thirty having my ankle twisted, turned, bent and pulled. This, I am told, will bring me closer to getting me back to where I want, no, need to be.
The need to be back in the woods hiking is a strong one. It has been two months to the day since I slid, fell and fractured my ankle on that fateful backpacking trip. Two months of sitting around recuperating isn’t as much fun as it sounds! Obviously it is sitting around time that is necessary, and that is what makes it somewhat bearable.
But as uncomfortable as it has been and will continue to be for a while longer, it also means that I am healing, and that is a good thing. The bottom line is this-You have to be positive. Life is way too short to set sucked into the negative. It will most certainly kill you.
My goal? I want to be back on the trails no later than October 1st!!
The End Of Summer
The end of the summer, it’s just about here.
No more fun picnics or nights filled with beer.
The warmth of each day, green leaves on the trees,
The cooler nights coming, we’ll certainly freeze.
But the worst thing we know, it happens each year,
The snow will be falling, it’s our biggest fear.
It will come from the sky, all fluffy and white,
All those great days, they went with a fight.
So we’ll sit in the house, still thinking of summer,
The snow, the snow, I say! It’s all such a bummer!
Piling so high, I hate each of those flakes,
Hexagonol structures, oddly shaped cakes.
So winter continues, we have no defense,
Before we all know it, a new day will commence.
A Cold Wind Is Coming
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
―George R. R. Martin
Pelton Pond
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
―Henry David Thoreau
Trees And More Trees
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
―Kahlil Gibran
Straight Down The Trail
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
-Aristotle
Happy Hiking!!!
The Zen Hiker 