Mom Would Have Loved This Day

It has been raining every few days the past few weeks. Normally, it would be brown and dusty in the hills, but not this year. I took a nice long hike today up Oat Hill Mine Trail and then at the top, hiked into the Duff Ranch, now land trust property. It was the kind of hike Mom would have enjoyed a few years ago. There was the bluster of cold rain, wildflowers, rocks, clouds, and rivelets of water.

Here is Mom a year and a half ago consoling her friend Rose who had just lost her husband. Mom was such a caring and unselfish person - right up until the end.

It was drizzly or rainy most of the day.

Three deer in no hurry to move.

The hidden deck and cave where I could take shelter from the rain to eat lunch.

Looking out from the cave.

Staying dry in the cave. Moments later the chair collapsed due to rusty welds.





Rain, rain, rain. In June.


Everywhere I saw beauty today, I thought of Mom and how she would have enjoyed it so much. This is how she spent many days - hiking canyons and pointing in amazement at the wonders of nature.

Mom and I two years ago.