bc riots, 2011

Girls With Guns

Nose-to-Nose

Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness

Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends

into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry out

to the petals on the ground
to stay,
knowing, as we must,
how the vivacity of what was is married

to the vitality of what will be?
I don’t say
it’s easy, but
what else will do

if the love one claims to have for the world
be true?
So let us go on

though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.

— MARY OLIVER

Summer

Camping at Lower Lola Montez Lake:

Brother Ali, Eligh & the Grouch at the Truckee Amphitheater:

One of Adam's many solo camp-missions, this one at 5 lakes Wilderness Area:

Late afternoon at Speedboat Beach, our favorite neighborhood haunt:

Home:

4th of July time:

Mindy came!

Big Meadows - a 16-mile segment of the Tahoe Rim Trail done by Adam mid-July:

Babysitter Boot-Camp - A weeklong Red Cross program directed by Adam

End of AmeriCorps service year, celebrated with a team hike!

Climbing Mt. Tallac, the tallest peak around the Tahoe basin. The hike took 7-hours round-trip and was pretty picture perfect.