a cloudy blue moon

I am not into celebrating holidays. To me it's a time of largely excessive consumerism and qualification of relationships via gestures, often monetary in nature, that largely happen at this time because society says they should. It's not that i don't appreciate thinking about other people. It's the notion that it must be done, given particular timing and in a particular way regardless of appropriateness or sentiment. It's can be a largely consumer fed capitalist push. It feels contrived.

However, in the same regard, the holidays can be a lonely time. Not only a reminder of what you have, but also, what you don't have. Given that thought, I decided to not grapple with the demons that I normally tackle this time of the year. I decided to not plan and just do. I followed my heart to a place that I knew would clear my head. I experienced the first minutes of 2010, relaxed, at peace, content, satisfied and happy. i experienced it in a place that is special to me in a way that words can't quite convey. My perspective of the forest as illustrated via Avatar, captures some of how I feel.

And so, while my camera can't quite capture the adventure in full, it provides a window... to something... Here's to putting a year of mixed unbelievable highs and heart-wrenching lows behind and to starting anew in the most positive of lights... and so begins the NYE under a cloudy blue moon.

The subi KILLS the snow. Right: My plastic brown dog. she freezes solid and glazes over when the temps drop below 36.5

The ridge. Rock / snow gardens??

Cowboy texted me during the day and was down with the blue moon. Right: trailwork!

lovely...

There was a ghost on the ridge. it told me stuff... ;)


a soft snowy wonderland.

magical canopy

precariously leaning snags... RIGHT: fireworks at midnight... (and gun fire - sketchy!)

and the trail takes me...
WHEREVER I WANT TO GO.

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone. follow your heart and the path that suits you best.