Took the poodles hiking today, after working all week. They are all worn out and napping now . I wish I had taken Ice's harness off, but both dogs wear harnesses when we walk or hike and it slipped my mind.

A chilly hike last Sunday yielded a plethora of wonderful fungi photos.

Sedona, AZ

polaroid pathfinder with "close up lens plus 2"

Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Cottonwood AZ

November 26, 2023, 4.66-mile hike in South Boulder. Trails: Hollyberry, Skunk Canyon, Kohler Mesa, Mesa, Tomato, Woods Quarry, NCAR, and NCAR-Table Mesa,

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May 7, 2023, 4.75-mile round trip hike from Peoples' Crossing in Boulder, Colorado. Trails: Red Rocks and Anemone.

And Cerberus.

A fungi-filled frosty Sunday hike from a couple weeks back.

89B, Coconino National Forest

Welcome to a brand new Day! There is nothing as beautiful as sitting on green grass and enjoy a sunrise surrounded by mountains. And thanks to @canonswitzerland I‘m able to capture and share moments like this!

July 31, 2022, 7.58-mile hike from home in Boulder, Colorado. Trails: Skunk Canyon, Kohler Mesa, Enchanted Mesa, Tomato, Woods Quarry, Mesa, Mallory Cave, NCAR, and NCAR Table Mesa.

(5/21/2018-Sunday)

To go fishing, means a day of hiking for me! I get to explore at my leisure....everything that Spring can deliver and "boy" does she deliver. To be alone, is not to be alone, but to be immersed in the push of green, while choirs of birds sing around me. This is a HOLY push to notice everything in Spring that is yelling out...here "I AM," my gift to you. And what a gift to have an awareness of such beauty.. Our Creator has given us a everything....we fail to notice the gift...right there buried within a patch of mountain grass...because that is where I found you.

All shades of purple...close to pink...but words blur the true color...Oh yes...words always fail me. Flowers are lucky, they do not have to use words...their very presence give proof of their meaning. I have never mistook the meaning of a flower, So, I use pictures to capture what my words fail to tell you.

-rc

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Sequentia - Don't Surrender (Lukas Termena Chillout Remix)

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Our life will not become narrower, but broader; not more limited, but boundless; not more regulated, but more abundant; not more pedantic, but more bounteous; not more sober, but more enthusiastic; not more faint-hearted, but more daring; not worse and more human, but filled with God and even better; not sadder, but happier; not more incapable, but more creative. All this is Jesus and his spirit of freedom. He is coming to us.

Therefore let us not grieve about anything but forgive everyone, just as much as we should be forgiven everything, and go into the future radiant with joy.

-Eberhard Arnold

January 26, 2025, 2.62-mile out and back hike from Four Mile Canyon Drive. Trails: Four MIle Link and Benjamin Loop.

(And by hike I mean walk up a big hill with stairs and slopes).

February 13, 2022 3.75-mile "there and back" hike on the Anne U. White Trail in Boulder, Colorado.

October 27, 2024, 3.92-mile hike to the Royal Arch at Chautauqua. Trails: Bluebell Road, Flatirons Loop, Royal Arch, Bluebell-Baird, Bluebell Mesa, and Chautauqua.

This guy was carving one of those historical monuments.

January 26, 2025, 2.62-mile out and back hike from Four Mile Canyon Drive. Trails: Four MIle Link and Benjamin Loop.

January 26, 2025, 2.62-mile out and back hike from Four Mile Canyon Drive. Trails: Four MIle Link and Benjamin Loop.

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Chad and the dogs and I took a long hike around Tuzigoot today. We stopped along the river the have a beer.

Tavasci Marsh Trail, Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Cottonwood, AZ.