Type of Hike
Day hike
We have a lot of travelers in the area. It wasn't that long ago that I Iearned of the word "phenology"; some time before that I read the Edwin Way Teale travel with the seasons quadrilogy, which is really a tetralogy; I don't do well outdoors.
The running took me farther, and further, out. A pause in an empty field might be long enough for the frozen-in-time occupants to come back to life and let me see towhees, vireos, a rufous hummingbird, a downy woodpecker, one possibly confused cedar waxwing, and a raven.
I might pause long enough to notice the morning sun relected in the gathered dew on a branch of spruce or to watch a wave because the seal might not be just another piece of driftwood, mistaken again. The ferns, not here just a short time ago, are now tall enough to look me in the eye--some, not yet uncurled, will be even taller.
Then again, I might not.
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