Today I went for a 5.5 mile stroll (round trip) along the Paradise River between Cougar Rock and Narada Falls. I ran into fresh snow a few hundred feet below the falls, snow which had come down overnight. You can drive and park within a five-minute walk of the Falls' viewpoint, but it was ever so much more rewarding to come up to it on foot. However, with the ease of access from the Road to Paradise, there were a few people at the overlook. I snapped a couple of quick pictures and beat a hasty retreat to privacy a mile back down the way I'd come. I spread my jacket on the wet puncheon bridge which crosses a tributary of Paradise River and sat there, delighted with my dessert of chocolate-chip cookies and stream.
365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Cookies And Stream
Today I went for a 5.5 mile stroll (round trip) along the Paradise River between Cougar Rock and Narada Falls. I ran into fresh snow a few hundred feet below the falls, snow which had come down overnight. You can drive and park within a five-minute walk of the Falls' viewpoint, but it was ever so much more rewarding to come up to it on foot. However, with the ease of access from the Road to Paradise, there were a few people at the overlook. I snapped a couple of quick pictures and beat a hasty retreat to privacy a mile back down the way I'd come. I spread my jacket on the wet puncheon bridge which crosses a tributary of Paradise River and sat there, delighted with my dessert of chocolate-chip cookies and stream.
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