Spring Meander

A leisurely stroll through the hills of Sugarloaf Ridge State Park may have to become a Spring tradition. The vistas are bucolic. The colors, intoxicating. Brilliant yellow-greens of the budding leaves. Bright scarlet and yellow wildflowers. Small seas of lupines that the kids couldn't help plundering. Handfuls of dark purple with their grape candy scent. The oaks are just leafing out in tender reddish ruffles. The streams still flash and sing before the heat of the summertime sucks them away. Enjoying it before the dry cicada-hum days of rattlesnake anxiety is the way to go.

Eden In Eden

Even with the lure of a picnic and stream dabbling, it was like extracting teeth getting the kids out into this
paradisial landscape but they rallied soon enough. It was just too beautiful out there to sustain a grump. We spied butterflies, snakes, hawks, deer, squirrels, conks, wildflowers, sunchokes, skippers, nests and faerie caves so there wasn't much to complain about. I wonder if the kids realize how dang lucky we are to live in this incredible place.

Stepping Stones

Spring Green

Spring has sprung and the last three days have somehow found me walking the same path into the woods of Annadel Park from the especially lush southwestern edge. Refreshing to just move through a landscape where everything is pushing up and out into pure green and pale yellow, pliant and tender with catkins, petals and new leaves. Exquisite.