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I guess I miss the water and the lake more than anything else. I'm home again in Sonora and remembering the clear air, the cool temperatures, the water, the light, the lack of smog. It's all pretty amazing and I am glad to say that I never really took it for granted when I lived there. It is still hot in Sonora, and still crowded, and still expensive. I'm just glad that I can go home now and then and see moments like this one. I was on my way to work, driving in to town from Rocky Point, and thought, oh my gosh, I have to stop, I don't care what time it is, I have to stop and get a photo of this moment. I took several actually, and they are all wonderful and it's hard to decide which ones to put up here. But I suppose it's irrelevant. I shared them with shutterful and sent them off to friends and family. This blog is basically irrelevant as well, but I just thought maybe I should put something up here. Maybe I can get into writing about the diatomaceous tour in Klamath, or soil survey in Tuolumne County, anything, something other than whining about missing my home. Maybe I can remember winter in Klamath and be glad that this year I will be here. Mabye then it will feel better than it does right now. Mabye then I will appreciate it all. Who knows. I hope so.
This is a shot of Medicine Lake in the Highlands, actually in the lovely state of California, about 6000 feet high and as clear and clean as you could ask for. 5 days of quiet, still water, ospreys, ducks, all sorts of little birds, chipmunks stealing food from the dog dish. Rejuvenation. Healing. Respite. A gift






And then of course there are the mornings on the lake and the polygonum in bloom. Silly pink flowers growing on 6 foot long underwater stems looking for all the world like a field of flamingos. Life should be so simple. Someday it will be. I wonder what I will think of it then?

I am reading my daughter's blog, so full of life and questions and amazing things that she writes about. Thoughtful, intellectual, interesting. I think I had that in me once, but maybe never really like she does. She amazes me. If you haven't found her blog yet, go there. She is Penitence69 on LiveJournal.com. I guess I should know how to link this but of course I don't! LOL Guess I really am into a different stage of life.