Day 355 and 356: Sat/Sun Aug 3rd - The River...

Day 355 and 356:  The River.....

runs....

dances across the ground ....

and plays.

Day 301 & 302: Mon / Tues June 10th - The River Calls

 

Day 301 and 302 - 

The River Calls 

"I have a great idea!"  (me)

"uh oh...  what?"        (girls)
"Let's go to the river!"
<groan>
"oh come one! It will be fun!"
"do we have to?"
"Yep, but it will still be fun"
 <second groan>

<Two hours later, ready to leave.>

"Okay guys.. we can go home now"
"Oh... do we have to??"
"Let us stay a little bit longer, this if fun!"
< me smiling>  "Sure!"


I love days like this. 

Day 254: Wed April 23rd - River Runs... again

Day Two Hundred Fifty-four - River Runs...again

Oh, the glorious sound of the river roaring to life once again.  

It paces my feet and floods my ears with it's beautiful music. 

Ok, enough poetic crap. I love the river however. I love listening to the water rushing about. It has been bare to barely a trickle all year.  Last night we were pelted with rain and wind  as a cold front blew in. Today, on this crisp cool morning, the river came alive.

Day 87: Thurs Nov 7th - River Runs Wild

Day Eighty-seven:  River runs wild....again...for a moment.

The river has been silent and empty lately. My run was sore today. Yesterday was a very active day on my feet with no breaks - and of course running before the busy day didn't help.
So today my feet protested a bit. I ran slow, took it easy. One headphone in for motivation and beat, the other ear listening to anything and everything, one foot at a time. 
Coming around the bend the silence in my right ear was suddenly filled with a rushing noise that I couldn't place. I stopped. Jax circled around himself, curious as well. Taking out my left ear bud I listened as the white noise became louder. For a moment I was confused and couldn't place it. I looked toward the sky ( my first panic thought was a plane was on it's way, falling from the sky and ready to smash me into the trail... I have a bit of a plane phobia.  And yes I am being a little on the dramatic side, as it was loud... but not imminent-demise-plane-falling-from-the-sky loud). 
Seeing nothing, we ran over to the bridge and became witness to the river unleashing. It was as if someone had been holding the water hostage (the dam is miles away by the mountain base) and then with a countdown of 1...2....3...  it roared to life (a sound I miss).  I could see the winding front in the distance, the water snaking it's way quickly across the rocks and boulders heading West. Carrying with it was mounds of debris that tumbled and rolled along. Going across to the other side of the bridge, the river behind was full of water topping it's banks, racing super fast and pushing over the mini fall underneath our feet with a loud  ....well, ya know... the loud river roaring under a bridge sound.                                    Needless to say, it's power was pretty cool. 

 



Day 84: Mon Nov 4th - Where Art and Nature Collide

Day Eighty-four:  

Where art and nature collide. 

Today I decided to venture off the trail l I've been on a bazillion times and head towards the large rocks at the rivers edge, wanting to extend my run and shake up the routine a bit. Coming down a steep short incline I ran right into a scenic hideaway I didn't even know existed.  

The holy Mecca of graffiti painted boulders!  

Normally I would cringe at such markups on natures perfect surface, but today I decided to look deeper. Spent several minutes walking around the massive rocks, reading and marveling the expressions and talent. The art here tells a story, or rather stories. I saw anger, defiance, rebellion... but also saw love, awesomeness and beauty. 

I should have brought a Sharpie :)

 

Day 83: Sun Nov 3rd - Fall Back in the Fall

Pure Happiness

Day Eighty-three: Fall back in the fall. 

Extra hour in the fall is nice. 
Slept in a bit then went running as a family at the large dog park / river trail. 
Jax and Izzy loved playing in the first snow fall of the season. It was beautiful.  Even in snow boots (which she insisted on wearing), Izzy kept up a good pace.

 

Day 73: Thurs Oct 24th - Sweet Reeds

Day Seventy-three:

"Sweet reeds are made of this...who am I to disagree."

 

Hopefully I've given you a daily earworm that you will hum all day long. You're welcome.

If not and my play on the song escapes you, thank me... as it is not that good of a song anyway.

 

Fun morning run. Not much else. I'm running out of things on my route to take photos of, so I must be more creative.  The river was a bit higher today which was nice to listen to.  I'm hoping for a strong winter mountain snow season. Not only do we need it to fill up our reservoirs, but the Spring run off filling the main rivers will be strong, powerful and quite a sight / sound to behold.

 

Two more days until our Halloween fun run 5k.  Still haven't decided on costumes... Time is running out!

 

Day 59: Thurs Oct 10th - I miss Seattle

Day Fifty-nine: 
If ever there was a morning that reminded me of Seattle, it was today. Misty rain, mild temperatures and a slight breeze accompanied me on my run. It was peaceful and quick paced.  Leaves are starting to cover the trail and the river had some flow to it today which created a nice rhythm as I ran past it.
I miss the Pacific Northwest.  
It is a 'wearing pajamas, fleece fuzzy socks, hot cup of coffee, reading the newspaper while listening to the rain outside my patio' kind of day...if only I didn't have to work :)
What is your favorite running / walking weather?

Day 56: Mon Oct 7th - Dog Park Run

Day Fifty-six:  Fun morning!  Girls were off school due to 'teacher work day', so we went to the large trail dog park and ran together.  Jax played at the rivers end with a multitude of dogs and had a blast.  There we saw a cute pit bull fearless dog jumping and sliding down a large cement river ledge that was at least 12-15 ft high and very steep, over and over.   Jax whined with excitement trying to gear up to follow the pit to the top.  Finally after several minutes, Jax overcame his anxiousness and ran up...  once at the top the look on his face screamed "oh shit!" and bow legged he had no choice but to slide down.  The girls and I laughed.  It was quite a sight!  I wish I could have gotten the moment on video to post. It was very funny. 
Afterwards Jax was having no more of that!  LOL

The weather and the trees were beautiful. We saw a young squirrel chirping at us.
On the way back,  Siena full bodied turfed it, but handled the jarring fall, scratches and pain like a trooper. 
Now time to do more baking and projects. Love days like this!