The talk is RIVER RUNNING

The talk is RIVER RUNNING!!! And they are ... running that is. Everything is in flood stage. Record flows - big water. Lots of boats on top of people's cars leaving town in search of white water.

Paradise returns

About 6:00pm I was on the phone and looked out my window and almost dropped the phone. The darkness over the mountains was huge, dramatic and moving fast. So beautiful. For the next 90 minutes the ominimous darkness grew and then the show began. Huge claps of thunder and rumbling followed by spattering rain and finally torrential rain. It was like a symphony. After so much dry weather and HOT days, it was a beautiful sight. People were one their decks wooping and hollering - welcoming the moisture. Today, it is clear, cool and beautiful. Paradise returns.

It is spring ... FINALLY

Wow - what a dark, cold, rainey, depressing off season that was. Ask anyone because it was the topic of conversation all of early May. In the grocery store, at the coffee wagon, on the street people were asking "how ya doing" to which people hung their head and said forlornly ... "hanging in there". But we got through it once again.

Off Season is the test of a true mountain person

Do you have what it takes to stick with the moutains in their most trying times? Most people run for the desert but you can only do that for so long... then ya have to come back and you always hope you've missed the worst of it. If not, you have to dig down deep in your "love of the mountains" feelings to get through it. Prozac helps.... or so I hear.