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View from Mount Pisgah near Springfield, Oregon |
Summer's halfway point, 2011. So far, so good. July is usually generous, here in Oregon, and although there have been rain and cool temperatures, this summer has been an improvement over
last year, when the thermometer read 48 degrees (Fahrenheit) on the morning of July 5.
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Wild flowers |
Most years I talk a good game about spending time in nature, but this year I'm actually doing it. My intrastate travels since June have taken me to
Southern Oregon, the
Oregon Coast, into the
Mount Hood wilderness, and to various places up and down the
Willamette Valley.
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Roll right, stones |
So, today, a post to exhort anyone out there who might agonize that summer is going by too fast. Get out there and enjoy it! You only get so many summers in your life and each one is a precious gift.
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Alas for the departed |
He came down through fields of green
On the summer side of life
His love was ripe
There were no illusions
On the summer side of life
Only tenderness
And if you saw him now
You'd wonder why he would cry
The whole day long
--Gordon Lightfoot
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What a life! |
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