Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
from snow hiking to kayaking in 24 hours
down here at my house on the coast today it rained and rained. about 10 km above my house in the tetrahedron range it snowed and snowed. nathan and i were lucky enough to be up there in a half a foot of fresh, untracked snow – as no one had come before us since the snow had started. we hiked about 5 km up and back down the old logging road (now cross-country ski trails) to tannis lake.
i am hoping to get the opportunity to go back up there on skis later this season (or at the very least – snowshoes) – the only dilemma being my lack of a vehicle to tackle snowy, steep logging roads. i guess i will have to get more friends with 4 wd to come and visit.
i live in the country
this morning while eating breakfast, a momma bear and two cubs traipsed through my yard. i tried to take a picture from the window which didn’t turn out too well (glare from the flash of course) – but i didn’t want to go outside to snap shots because at this time of year i’m not too keen on getting close to a mother an her young uns. i share it here as absolute, definitive proof that i no longer live in the city.
(if you look in the bottom left hand corner you can see the face of one of the cubs).
imposing a direction
my i ching earlier this week instructed me to “impose a direction on things” in order to please the spirits – and at first i was not sure what exactly that meant in relation to my current direction – until i realized that at least educationally i have been drifting somewhat in the last two or three weeks. online university is like that – potentially you can get a lot done in a short period of time because they are self-directed – but equally, it is easy to end up with long fallow spells in which little gets done.
latest rug installment
yeah yeah – the picture isn’t great, the colours didn’t come out so good – but here is the latest installment in the 4000-stitch rug – i finally finished one of the birds tonight – one more to go and then… the background fill-in which i expect to take the next month or so to get finished. (it doesn’t have scale in the photo – but this is a 3 foot x 4 foot rug – stitched in wool and acrylic on canvas).
new years planning
okay – i know – it’s november, but somehow people have already been asking about new year’s eve….
i absolutely detest the holidays, but even more depressing to me than going out to an obnoxious party would be staying at home alone on the coast with no one to raise a glass to. so – what i’m thinking is that those of you interested in a low-key social new years event… might want to come up to roberts creek for new year’s eve? we’ll get the woodstove going, some good food on the table, and you can stay the night on my floor…. plus new year’s day we could go for a walk in the old-growth up the road from my house, or just do a nice breakfast at the gumboot (if folks are so inclined).
i plan to do an email canvas on this – but if you are interested, please email me (or comment in the blog) to let me know. if there are a few people who are digging this plan – i will formalize it in december.
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