With strokes of luck and intuition, RK and I ended up in the perfect place. We can observe the Milky Way in the night sky with owls and coyotes as the soundtrack. The forest is just down the street, where we know the trails so well we have even named some of the rocks. The neighbors aren’t always perfect, there are faraway gunshots heard from the buttes, but this is the wabi-sabi in our lives — something to notice and …
Tag: sunrise
In Things to do outsideTags coyotes, headlamps, nautical twilight, rocks, shadows, sunrise, trail running, twilight
If you are anything at all of a morning person, you’ve figured out that it is a whole lot darker in the morning these days. In less than two short weeks, and a return to Standard Time, we will gain a bit of light in the morning before settling into the wintery progression of dark mornings. Meanwhile, I’ve been learning how to see in the dark! Or, to be precise, Nautical Twilight. I’ve learned that this is when the sun is between 6 and …
Not so long ago I didn’t know how to get air on my bike. I quickly realized how much this limited 1) my speed 2) my style 3) my fun and I started spending most evenings at the local jump park. Camp jumps became an essential part of every weekend. I bought a big bike, fashioned summer vacations around bike parks and eventually I got to be okay at it. It doesn’t take much to make me very, very happy. Luckily, I have …