Remember to Stop -- and Fire Up the Sauna

Ceaseless dripping from the sky, lake-finding adventure through soggy field, warm bath, hot soup. Fire dries clothes. Rest. Listen to ceaseless dripping from the sky.

Wood sauna? asks Ken. Yes. Forge creek. Ice cold rushing water. Heavy with silt, thick with rain. Katie contemplates new green on brown twig (salmonberry). Hello, Hot sauna. Ceaseless hissing from steam, dripping from heat. Cool off. Cedar umbrella in the green.

How can we not remember to stop -- and fire up the sauna -- on a wet soggy heavy-with-gray day. Like today.

Thank you to Ken, who leads the pack on how to stop and smell the flowers.

All work and no play makes Walker Creek a dull boy.

***** soggy photos from April not available ;) **** sauna and cedar bridge are from our winter 2010 gift of snow ***

Easter Sweets

Frosting easter-shaped sugar cookies at The Sunshine House today.

New Noah piling it on thick. Dayna decorated the psychedelic tulip. Hannon, old Noah, and Caleb already outside chowing on their frosting-mounded goodness, breathing in the crisp spring day.

Celebrations at the community for Easter will be quiet this year. Lots of folks away and busy. As a newbie, I've only heard that usually Easter is a lovely community celebration here, complete with egg hunts and gathering to feast on leg of lamb a la Karma. Here's to spring and budding plants, which will emerge from the cold ground regardless, hallelujah!!!