Back to the color blue, it's no surprise I'm drawn to it, and I don't think I'm alone. What we've all been through, and are still going through, leads us into greater introspection / wisdom, and personal freedom. As a society, we lost sight of the concept of LIVING over living, but it's coming back to us.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Observation and Appreciation
Back to the color blue, it's no surprise I'm drawn to it, and I don't think I'm alone. What we've all been through, and are still going through, leads us into greater introspection / wisdom, and personal freedom. As a society, we lost sight of the concept of LIVING over living, but it's coming back to us.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Still Waiting for Spring!
It has been a cold spring--really cold--maybe the coldest on record. The late spring wildflowers, like camas, were wilting over in one area we hiked. They were like, "Um, what the hell is this? Someone told us it was May, quote unquote. Spring, quote, unquote. Obviously that was wrong."
The early spring wildflowers, however, are absolutely abundant! Triumphant! Loud, and PROUD! They're doing that "threading the needle" dance move, singing "We rock, we roll, we be the king of the world."
Biscuitroot
"Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars...everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being."
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
We Survived a Tornado
What a crazy year, and now you can add being hit by a tornado to the list of things that has happened to us. In Spokane, since 1950, there are only 13 confirmed tornados, but we had 2 in one day and now that number is 15. One of them touched down at our house, took out our fence, moved to my neighbor's, uprooted 2 of his big pine trees, and then continued down the road and back into the sky.
While it was happening, I was looking out the back window at the barn, watching the horses, and not the front window, where the tornado ripped through. Our young lab, Lucy, had begun to absolutely freak out (something she has never done in previous storms) and I couldn't contain her. I was also on the phone with my mom while this was happening, and I told her it sounded like a nuclear bomb had gone off. It looked like it, too. It had become very dark and otherworldly. But there wasn't much wind in the back of the house. In fact, we have a tent up on our deck and pillows on the outdoor furniture, and it all stayed in place.
But in the front of the house, a different scene was playing out, and our neighbor witnessed the whole thing. I texted him when the storm settled to see if they were okay, and he said he saw the tornado come through the fences and over to his place and uproot the trees then move on. The national weather service came by and interviewed him, compared it to their radar and witness videos, and confirmed it was, indeed, a tornado.
Here's a link to the video, if you'd like to see what it looked like from far away. It's as if a hand is placing a tornado right onto our property.
The sky was eery that night, and the nights afterward.
We lost power because the trees took out the power lines. I walked down the road to survey the damage.