"Hiking on Mount Parnassus"
We hiked most of the morning to the top of Thomas Creek, dawdling to take photos of us, Jazz our dog, the mountain, and wildflowers.
It’s still that bright green of early June up high. The rivulet from a spring on the slope is running cheerily across the trail. We’ve come to the stream after a long and steep hike, just before breaking into the large valley and rocky cliffs at the top.
The creek’s banks are verdant with spongy moss dotted pink and white, overhanging willow, and shooting stars, and a cluster of white Fringed Grass of Parnassus, that catches John’s eye,
“Look at this!”
A mossy shrine: five-petaled blossoms float above emerald, heart-shaped leaves forming a miniature holy place.
“Parnassus,” a mountain in Greece, near the Gulf of Corinth, was sacred to Apollo and the Muses in ancient times. Today "Parnassus"is any center of poetic or artistic activity.
The brooklet singing down the mountain is a "center of artistic activity." Do what you love.
That’s the intention.
To read more about day or half-hay wildflower hikes
It’s still that bright green of early June up high. The rivulet from a spring on the slope is running cheerily across the trail. We’ve come to the stream after a long and steep hike, just before breaking into the large valley and rocky cliffs at the top.
The creek’s banks are verdant with spongy moss dotted pink and white, overhanging willow, and shooting stars, and a cluster of white Fringed Grass of Parnassus, that catches John’s eye,
“Look at this!”
A mossy shrine: five-petaled blossoms float above emerald, heart-shaped leaves forming a miniature holy place.
“Parnassus,” a mountain in Greece, near the Gulf of Corinth, was sacred to Apollo and the Muses in ancient times. Today "Parnassus"is any center of poetic or artistic activity.
The brooklet singing down the mountain is a "center of artistic activity." Do what you love.
That’s the intention.
To read more about day or half-hay wildflower hikes
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