Saturday was a gorgeous day here. LOML and I had been discussing the fact that we hadn't gone 'xplorin' in a while --- before the children were born we'd often take a map, randomly pick somewhere a few dozen miles from here, and go see it. With the children (and especially with a combination of "where are we going" and "are we there yet?") the idea of a random destination has become somewhat less attractive: but there are a number of places we've found, and we hadn't been to many of them in quite a while.
We decided to visit a local waterfall: it is about a half hour drive, then a good half hour walk (longer with little legs!) along a gentle trail into the woods.
It had been well over a year since we had been there, and the intervening months have been full of drought and almost empty of rain: it showed in the waterfall, which was rather more of a trickle than a fall: but it was beautiful still: the day was great, and the children took off their socks and shoes and paddled around in the pools of water at the base of the falls.
Only here can we go up into the mountains, in the middle of winter, and paddle barefoot in a stream!
Yours, warmly,
N.
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