NOT ALWAYS THE WAY IT SEEMS

WILDERNESS TRAIL

“———May your rivers flow without end,
meandering through pastoral valleys
tinkling with bells, 
past temples and castles and poets’ towers
into dark primeval forest where tigers

WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME

belch and monkeys howl, 
through miasmal and mysterious swamps
and down into a desert of red rock,

GHOSTS HANGING AROUND

blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and
grottos of endless stone,
and down again into deep vast ancient 
unknown chasm

SLITHERS

FACE IN THE WATER

where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled
cliffs,

ICE AND ORGAN MUSIC

HOWLING

where deer walk across the white sand 
beaches,
where storms come and go

WINTER GREEN

as lightening clangs upon the high crags,
where something strange and more beautiful
and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams
waits for you—--
beyond the next turning of the canyon
walls.
          Edward Abbey

DOMINIC AND FRIEND

I’ve learned that events that may at first look bad can in the long run be good.
For example, I’m reading a book called,”An Altar in the Wilderness” by Kaleeg Hainsworth.

WATCHING DOMINIC

You see, I own this book because of Dominic. I was taking a shower and Dominic didn’t want me to be taking a shower. So while I was taking said shower, Dominic scurried to the living room and chewed on the book’s spine.

SPOTTED FOREST

SPRING ART

I explained to the librarian that my dog had gnawed on their book because he was miffed at me. They told me I had to pay for the book. They said I could keep the chewed up copy.

TOREY ENJOYING BIG SPRUCE GARDEN

Now I can read it at my leisure. Now I can highlight portions I like. Basically, Dominic did me a favour. Bless his furry little soul.

LINED UP AND READY TO GO

Things might not always be as bad as they appear.
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A TRAIL TAKEN

TAKING TIME FOR A FEW PUFFS.