One of the benefits of underemployment: a mid-week hike in the redwoods. Yesterday we went on an incredibly beautiful, eight-mile adventure on the Cataract Creek trail just outside of Fairfax. The climb up to the top of the falls was impossibly green and ferny considering the lack of rain lately. Let go of logical reason, and you'd think you were in Hawaii. Far below the treetops, everything covered in moss, the light bullied itself through the tree-slats.
After a few hours of steady ascent, we got above the trees and were treated to views of the corrugated valley below and Bon Tempe Lake, eight miles across. The sky a blinding blue, a circus of hawks fretting the clouds. And the crooked joy in a dog's smile, snout up, drinking the wind.
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