Hello Good-Bye

Crescent Bay Lake with reflection, including school bus

Daily Note

Every day, a photograph, a poem. Today, Guthrie stopped often to listen and look at the hills. He even turned around and led me back down the road we had started to hike up. I call it Rabbit Hill because it’s a place that is often filled with the little rabbits. I took Guthrie’s cue and stayed in the common area where most people using the lake roam. Guthrie sees and hears what I cannot.

This view is where our car parks; it’s almost always peaceful with this slightly blurred reflection. Today I caught the school bus in the reflection. When you see the water’s edge like this, do you ever think of it as a portal to another world? That the reflection is another dimension that meets ours at this spot? I”ve often thought of writing about that for NaNoWriMo, but I have not done so yet.

It was 39°F when we walked, as it often is. Not cold enough for snow and an easy temperature to walk in. It’s winter. That’s slightly warmer for our usual winters. I looked up temperatures for Grand Coulee in January, 2008 at US Climate Data:

I’ll try to remember to check back to see the average temperatures for this month, this year. People are enjoying the better weather, and the increasingly longer days!

Resource: Vital Signs of the Planet (NASA)

Today’s poem is a hello to the new year and a good-bye to last year. Tick Tock. The year will go by fast: do your best to make it better! I know I plan too.