Hitchhiker

I'm dirty and covered with burrs, the boys are wet, dirty, stinky and covered with burrs and we're quite happy, thank you very much.

This pretty little praying Mantis hopped a ride on my shoulder and then happily crawled up and down my arms until I could coax him onto a branch for a photo op.  I love these little critters, haven't seen one in a while.  I don't know why it's white, strange.

Do you ever feel like you did some growing up?  That all of a sudden you stretched yourself beyond where you were the day before?

Me, for sure.  I tend to run on auto pilot, just cruising at altitude, looking at the pretty clouds and feeling the silky air hold me up.  And then, oh shit, what's that?  All systems suddenly come to full alert and I have to turn my brain on to make some sort of a decision.  I'm best in a crisis, finding that I can zero in on what's really important.

Back to cruising again, now in a slightly different flight path but it's ok, the clouds are still pretty and the air is silky and smooth again.

Love does that to you, shakes you up, makes you realize what's truly important, sets you free to fly, and yet, reminds you where home really is once the day is done.  A couple of years ago I wrote a post about love and other things, this line is so true.  "In breaking her heart expands to hold love larger than she was."  This doesn't just happen once, but can happen often in our lives.  I try to remember this when my heart gets broken, that it now can hold more than before.

Peace

Did you know?

That car seats actually come with cup holders now?  Where is the cell phone charging outlet and pocket?

Wow!

On a more sane note.  I took the fur faces down to the river to play.  I picked blackberries for Dandy and me.  Bode thinks our culinary choices are poor.  But he likes chasing sticks.

The habitat of the rare and elusive mountain Corgi. They are known for their stealth when tracking cookies and their ferocity when confronted with a new squeak toy to dismember.

Crikey, there's one now, hide your food, unless you'd like a kiss or two.

More later...

Peace

This and that...

The weather could not be more beautiful, 70's with a cool breeze.  The boys and I have been walking up on the Champion Mine Trail in Nevada City, miles of level trails running along a NID ditch.  The boys run happily down the trail and occasionally jump into the ditch for a slurp and a cool down.

This tree is almost ready to fall down, hopefully it will go down the hill and not on the trail.
And Bode wondering if I'm going to kick him off the couch.

But he's safe since he didn't tear off the sheet before he nested in.

Peace