pine flat

returning from an exhausting but wonderful short stay at pine flat lake, just south of the sequoias. california never ceases to amaze me. we had a big sleepover on the second floor of a motel room which looked out on to the lake and a perfect looking tree heavy mound named owl mountain.

boys woke up at 645 am to get ready for their race- coconut water, shammy butter, cute hip stretching, bananas, gear, gear, gear. wasn't long before they were off to register and i had the other early morning to myself with quinoa and hard boiled egg and a lazy lay in bed. i got up to catch my first sight of riders going by.

they look like a school of fish. they are also invisible as men. they can only be seen as war machines, or moving bodies. nothing idiosyncratic besides their jerseys and gear. that is amazing to me.

a great day largely because i hiked around the lake in forbidden areas and i am beginning to really feel the new camera as a serious keeper. it's slowly becoming my third arm. we will see how these pictures turn out because the camera is a breeze to handle and shoot. our hotel room, yucca, cactus, unborn poppies, fisherman, mountains and mountains, some cyclists, and oranges at the end.

i am slightly embarrassed because i did have a nightmare that night, and the boys heard me say weird loud things in my sleep. not long after i awoke, i described my nightmare very fast and then even more quickly fell right back to sleep.