1012. returning home

they say home sweet home

and fondness grows with absence

there’s no place like home  🦊❤️

I just returned from our annual race in Vermont. This year’s trip was 13 days long and was like no other race adventure before.  At the end, I felt homesick and could not wait to get back home.  It was wonderful to get back home to my love Yulan. There’s no place like home.  🦊❤️

 

1011. wind, water and sunlight

 

 on the rip’lin pond

diamonds of sunlight bobbing

the wind comes and goes 🦊❤️

Simply describing as best as you can what is right in front of your eyes is poetry. Sometimes it’s magic too. 🦊❤️

1010. post race processing

sun’s light overhead

water skippers dance their dance

their shadows dance too 🦊❤️

•••

in the rushing creek

a still pool as smooth as silk

water skippers skip 🦊❤️ 

I stood on a little bridge looking down into the rushing water that continued its task of carving its way through the ageless rocks of Vermont. I was surrounded by the overwhelming beauty and majesty of the Green Mountains above me. In the midst of it all I watched Water Skippers dancing in a tiny pool of still water bordering the careening water. I watched their shadows dance on the pool’s rock bottom. I looked at my son Kevin silently standing beside me. Our jobs done.  I felt still too. 🦊❤️

 

1009. and in the end

when all’s said and done

all the waiting and watching

worth all the worry  🦊❤️

I could not be prouder of my daughter Jennifer and my son Kevin as they ran at the annual Infinitus Trail Running event in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Jen ran a great race in the marathon event over the extremely rugged and challenging course. My son Kevin completed 306 miles in  the 10 Day Mountain Trail Event (888). Congratulation on jobs well done. 🦊❤️

 

1008. crazy good times

one of the best thing

‘bout going to do crazy things

crazy good friends  🦊❤️

(nick, chris, kevin & dan)

In the recesses of nowhere land, crazy good friends are to be found. 🦊❤️
 

1007. what am i waiting for?

my head in the clouds

her eyes following a bird

watching and waiting 🦊❤️

Recently I have been watching dogs running around  doing what dogs do. Whatever it is they are doing at the moment is all that they are doing at the moment. They aren’t waiting and watching for something to happen, they are fully involved in what is happening. Such a great lesson… arf!! 🦊❤️

 

1006. hurry up and do nothing

a do nothing day

watching the fly strip hanging

even the bugs doze 🦊❤️

Sometimes a day full of nothing to do except doing nothing is wonderful.  I wonder how many folks have no idea what a “fly strip” is? 🦊❤️