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| Pink lady's slipper along a creek near our home. |
On the first full day of summer I celebrated with a bike ride to some of my favourite places in the woods near home.
As usual, I took some photos to share with Linda since she is unable to join me.
In this post I share a few that she particularly enjoyed.
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| A painted turtle basking in the sun in the middle of the path I was riding on. |
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| The new, fresh growth is abundant and crackling with life. |
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| Waterfalls are beautiful to see, have potent health benefits, and make one happy to be alive. |
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| "Trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in cooperative ways that hold lessons for humans." - Suzanne Simard |
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| The forest is my sanctuary. |
Our time on this earth is brief, as is summer in the north.
I spend as much time as I can in natural areas around our home in the summer. I am fortunate in that I have a large selection of primo rides and hikes right out my back door.
For this I am grateful.
Linda hopes you enjoyed her curated photo gallery of my solstice celebration ride.
Happy summer.
Dear LInda, I did enjoy :-) look at that beautiful turtle! glad you are enjoying your surroundings! have a good one , Allison
ReplyDeleteThank you. You, too.
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It's nice to have access to all this nature and enjoy the warm weather. I love going into woods and nature areas where I live. Always a place to learn, studying the natural systems is interesting and getting to know the trees and their life cycles which are infinitely interconnected. It's a refreshing change to the social systems which I study and work with professionally which tend to be constructed on top of reality. Critical realism is a useful guide to the difference. My ideal life would be immersed in a mountain forest with a lot of biodiversity and along with my wife and that is all I would need, I don't mind social systems, but I always feel sad when I see how fabricated things are. Do you swim in the streams?
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Alex
The past three years had me thinking about "what's real" even more than usual. Everything is fabricated, and it is not usually a fabrication I enjoy. When I am in nature everything seems real as nothing is misrepresenting itself. It is what it is, and I like that.
ReplyDeleteThe streams around here are quite small and shallow, but we do have a couple of lakes close by. I am not a big swimmer, but a dip in one of those lakes is definitely in order.
Gregg