Nothing like being a year and a half behind. Sheesh, Mokihana! But this is a perfect example of why I’m not doing the same 365 Days this year. I just couldn’t keep up doing other stuffs along with posting photos for every day. So now, in the sometimes bleakness of winter, here’s some autumn color for you.
This is from our adventure up Lolo Pass Road in the foothills of Wy’east (Mt. Hood). This was my first post about it, and this was my second.
Today deserves its own page because the fog down in Sunshine Valley was so lovely this morning.
January 26th
I love watching the Old Faithful webcam! I’m pretty sure this is the Beehive Geyser.
We rented a wood splitter and Bob and his grandson helped Nolemana to get it all split and piled up for my friend who only heats with wood. I provided moral support. They ended up with about 1 1/2 cords after working all day long.
January 13th
We had a whole bunch of very foggy mornings; some days the fog didn’t lift until mid-afternoon!
Speaking of this rainbow…
…I couldn’t help but wonder, as we were driving mauka (east) that day, how many people were aware of it and took notice of it. We were driving along Highway 212 and the rainbow was majestic in front of us. It was so incredible that I thought, in a different world, traffic would’ve stopped, people would’ve gotten out of their cars, gotten together in groups, and shared in the delight of getting to witness such an incredible sight.
Of course, that didn’t happen, and it probably wouldn’t have even been reasonable to do so, but those are the kinds of things I think about. I also wonder how many times we rush through our days, not noticing the wonder of everything around us. That’s one of the reasons I started the 365 Days photos, because I learned even more about all the miracles, large and small, around me, that happen every single day. I’ve always had an eye for detail, and getting to document the details was and is a good thing for me to do. Doing the photos helped me to stay in the present, and not let my mind wander off too much (which it’s inclined to do anyway).
In the end, I was incredibly grateful that the rainbow stayed long enough for me to get off the highway and onto a quiet country road, so that I could see its astonishing beauty and share it with you.
Back in January 2022 I’d decided, with the great input from you folks, to do the 365 Days challenge, posting at least one photo a day for each day, chronicling my year. As you know, I got ‘way behind a lot of times, probably because instead of posting one photo a day, which was my original intent, I ended up posting a lot more than that, which took a lot of time, cropping and editing the photos, typing out captions, etc., and then posting everything. I think I got burned out and discouraged because I couldn’t keep up. I have a fairly busy life to attend to, also.
I am basically a storyteller, really. But I was so busy posting daily photos that I didn’t have time to post about our various road trips (witness the fact that I never did finish our autumn drive up the mountain from a year and a half ago!). I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to do with this blog this year, and I think that I’m going to cut down on the number of 365 Days photos I’ve been doing for the past three years, and concentrate more on storytelling, if you can call it that. I’m still going to work in the Daily Hummingbird, though, and I still want to chronicle each day, but on a smaller scale.
So without further adieu…
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