Sometimes I Wonder…

I did not know anyone had visited planet Mountia .

It may be maudlin but I love the sentiment of that idea. Thanks! And while in that sentimental spirit….   May the Mountains bring all of you

health and joy and peace and beauty and time with friends old and new and family and love this Holiday Season.

There’s a fantastic grove of Jeffrey Pine just past Merced Lake that I’ve been visiting in the spring usually for nigh on 30 years. If it’s later in the year I’m coming from above have been on the trail awhile and really stink. I think these trees know me.

Wait, actually I don’t stink–I bathe daily–but my personal smell is pronounced.

There’s also a thick cluster of trees that have been re-occupying a burn area below that lake. I’ve watched them slowly grow higher over a similar period of time. Sometimes I’ve camped by them, again usually in the early spring. I think about all these trees often.

As a child, I used to repeatedly read a children’s book called The Giving Tree. This reminds me of that. The Mountains do miss us

BTW, yes , I wonder too but about something else.

“I did not know anyone had visited planet Mountia.”

Ha! Thanks for the laugh, Franco.

I hate to spoil a joke and I thought I had  but I see that my first comment still was too subtle.

Duh.  I passed that test with flying colors!

Do they want us to return the trees we stole to flush down the toilet?

We buy TP made 100% from recycled paper and cardboard, without the usual chlorine bleaches. We like to think it helps.

Cheers