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We have been hiking again today. In the neighbouring countryside. We are able to walk right out our backdoor, but today we took the car. Our goal was a little further away.
How lucky we are to have nature all around us. Nature where you can decide to walk the trails where you are sure to meet other people, or nature where you can walk for hours and hours without meeting anyone.
We are back from the hike. I´ve showered and washed my hair, we´ve had dinner and I´ve had a nap. My limbs are resting now, burning with a tiny little flame which is kept alive by the fire called rheumatism. I could do without it, still, it feels good to know that my body took me along the path for hours today.
A quiet Sunday night, resting.....means reading of course. With my mind filled with images of the beauty I saw today, I am taken back to another hike, another place, another year.
Last summer we visited both Muir Woods and Yosemite. Being a Norwegian, visiting California for the first time in my life, I must confess I had never heard of John Muir. Now I have! And I am deeply fascinated!
At the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite I was lucky enough to find John Muir´s My First Summer in the Sierra. And not only a plain book but The 100th Anniversary Illustrated Edition, filled to the brim with Muir´s words and Scot Millers photographs. And I also (to my husband´s despair, he was thinking of the weight of our suitcases) bought the most wonderful Ansel Adam´s coffee table book Yosemite and the High Sierra.
These to books are my companions tonight.
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Over in BrittArnhild´s House in the Woods you can read more about today´s hike,
and here and here you can read about our Yosemite visit. (I loved the tent we stayed in)
By the way, I am about halfway through Peer Gynt now, and I am impressed by the English translation.