Everywhere you go

Everywhere you look

there is beauty, raw, intense often threatening to overwhelm.

There are the major trails and then, here and there,

are lesser ones, with no names, no signs just a path leading off.

There are signs telling you not to  wander off trail because among other things the soil is alive...

Today after the dog park we took one of these trails - more or less in our neighborhood - and walked it for a while.

We did not have time or energy  to follow it to the end, but we will go back and explore further.

 another split rock

looking down at shelley

 This may be the backside of one of the features we see from our back yard.