snowy and rainy
Easter Sunday evening I had another long(ish - 3 hour) a-fib episode after we had dinner. I look back on it and maybe I can blame the overeating of the big meal, a rich dessert (too much sugar) and drinking an alcoholic root beer (another very sweet thing). I was feeling stuffed and bloated and then the a-fib started. I want to believe that I can control this thing somewhat and if I can believe it comes from something I am doing wrong then maybe I can feel more in control. If I don't eat stupidly then maybe that will be one thing that won't be causing it to happen. I love to eat stupidly though - there's the problem. Oh well, maybe I will get better at this...
Anyway I was very glad Monday morning to get back to doing something that felt active and not-related to heart palpitations. It had snowed over night and the inch of snow on everything was really beautiful. The sun was shining too. Candy and I hiked a 5 mile loop at the Kennerdell tract - down to Dennison Run and then up the mountain again to the lookout. I took lots of pictures with the big girl camera and 35mm prime lens with RAW in addition to regular JPG thinking I would play around with the RAW pictures later. Though all the photos I show here are just the JPG versions. I don't have the patience yet to figure out how to best process so many photos. Plus the laptop goes very slow when it is working with the big RAW files. Maybe I will learn something helpful when the book gets here.
Today even though it was raining Jan and I walked at Wilhelm. So we have now set a precedent. If we can start out when it is raining like it was today then we have no excuse for not hiking in the rain in the future. Way back when I was still taking care of my mom and dreaming about hiking the Appalachian trail, reading the stories of others who did I was imagining what it would be like to keep going - hiking onward in the rain. Not to be a wimp. I'm pretty sure I will never hike the AT but I can pretend I am, especially on days like this. Even today in the rain things were beautiful - drops of sparkling water hanging on the bushes, the mist rising out of the hills, rich wet colors.
Be warned - lots of pictures.
Monday morning. I noticed the snow patterns when I got out of the car at the parking lot.
Woods road.
Snowy trail Candy.
Sunny sky with clouds.
Snow covered Xmas tree.
Hemlock.
White pine.
This is near the first bridge we came to. There is an interesting vine in the upper left formed in a circle in the picture if you can see it.
Candy.
Silky water.
Boulders and a bridge. I counted 8 bridges after we got down to Dennison Run though there were more before we got to that point.
I liked this picture especially.
Crossroads.
We hiked Goat trail last year - it is apply named - climbs right up a steep hill.
Another bridge.
Footprints and the holes that melting water falling from the trees made.
Fungus.
From the lookout. Cloud shadows on the hills.
Something I wrote on the lookout platform.
Same picture but taken in RAW - the only picture I took the time to process.
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Today I just carried my phone and took photos with it. I didn't want to bring my big camera out in the rain.
On the bike trail around Lake Wilhelm. A tree that Jan calls "Leon's tree".
The top of Leon's tree.
Green! Moss green and watercress green.
Beech leaves and tree fungus that I thought went nicely together
On the way back from Lake Wilhelm today I played the Michael Hurley album through the car speakers and took the long way home on random dirt roads. Doing things like that makes me feel like I am more ME than usual. I get a feeling sometimes like I have god with me, like he is over my shoulder looking on, approving.
Anyway I was very glad Monday morning to get back to doing something that felt active and not-related to heart palpitations. It had snowed over night and the inch of snow on everything was really beautiful. The sun was shining too. Candy and I hiked a 5 mile loop at the Kennerdell tract - down to Dennison Run and then up the mountain again to the lookout. I took lots of pictures with the big girl camera and 35mm prime lens with RAW in addition to regular JPG thinking I would play around with the RAW pictures later. Though all the photos I show here are just the JPG versions. I don't have the patience yet to figure out how to best process so many photos. Plus the laptop goes very slow when it is working with the big RAW files. Maybe I will learn something helpful when the book gets here.
Today even though it was raining Jan and I walked at Wilhelm. So we have now set a precedent. If we can start out when it is raining like it was today then we have no excuse for not hiking in the rain in the future. Way back when I was still taking care of my mom and dreaming about hiking the Appalachian trail, reading the stories of others who did I was imagining what it would be like to keep going - hiking onward in the rain. Not to be a wimp. I'm pretty sure I will never hike the AT but I can pretend I am, especially on days like this. Even today in the rain things were beautiful - drops of sparkling water hanging on the bushes, the mist rising out of the hills, rich wet colors.
Be warned - lots of pictures.
Monday morning. I noticed the snow patterns when I got out of the car at the parking lot.
Woods road.
Snowy trail Candy.
Sunny sky with clouds.
Snow covered Xmas tree.
Hemlock.
White pine.
This is near the first bridge we came to. There is an interesting vine in the upper left formed in a circle in the picture if you can see it.
Candy.
Silky water.
Boulders and a bridge. I counted 8 bridges after we got down to Dennison Run though there were more before we got to that point.
I liked this picture especially.
Crossroads.
We hiked Goat trail last year - it is apply named - climbs right up a steep hill.
Another bridge.
Footprints and the holes that melting water falling from the trees made.
Fungus.
From the lookout. Cloud shadows on the hills.
Something I wrote on the lookout platform.
Same picture but taken in RAW - the only picture I took the time to process.
*******************
Today I just carried my phone and took photos with it. I didn't want to bring my big camera out in the rain.
On the bike trail around Lake Wilhelm. A tree that Jan calls "Leon's tree".
The top of Leon's tree.
Green! Moss green and watercress green.
Beech leaves and tree fungus that I thought went nicely together
On the way back from Lake Wilhelm today I played the Michael Hurley album through the car speakers and took the long way home on random dirt roads. Doing things like that makes me feel like I am more ME than usual. I get a feeling sometimes like I have god with me, like he is over my shoulder looking on, approving.