Sunday, August 23, 2009

Spontaneous Camping Trip

One of the great things about rural living is that we can decide to spend the night on a mountain ridge at 3:00 pm, pull out of the drivewaty at 4:30 pm, set up a camp before dinnertime...

 
Posted by Picasa


all we need is a wide spot in the middle of a dirt road.

 
Posted by Picasa


Ah, the main reason for the adventure, sunset on the Three Sisters.

 
Posted by Picasa


And because we are on a ridge, we can see the glow on the mountains in front of us while the sun sets behind us. Here Mike and I are with our visiting granddaugher, Angelica.


 
Posted by Picasa


This morning we had a soft haze across the landscape as the sun rose.

 
Posted by Picasa


We are on top of the world.

 
Posted by Picasa


I love that Angelica is learning to appreciate nature.

 
Posted by Picasa


She also likes to take self-portraits.

On our way home we came across this gismo.

 
Posted by Picasa


What...

 
Posted by Picasa


the...

 
Posted by Picasa


heck is it??

 
Posted by Picasa


I took one last shot of the mountains graced with fireweed in the forground before we traveled down through the forest to home.

All this happened in less than 24 hours.

2 comments:

Evan Morgan Williams said...

The gizmo looks like some kinda lever from olden days

Anonymous said...

You lucky duck!!

Linda N.