Einstein Was Right!

Hello again. More from Cowboy John Tours.

Einstein was right. Time is relative.
Every adult knows time moves more rapidly for grown-ups
than for kids.

Summer stretched forever when I was a kid. Biking to
the sandpit in Weiser with friends, sandwich in a bag,
crawling through sticky junipers in the hedge that ran
all the way around our house, running through the sprinkler
on hot Idaho days. Leaf houses in the fall under the Queen
Anne cherry tree.

We planned nothing ahead of time, just plunged into the day.
All we cared about was what we were doing right then, in that moment.

Today, my speed-bullet summer is used up before I get to it.
Mostly I live in the future, obsessing over grass-clogged
flowerbeds, neglected grapevines, the turbulent pile on my
desk, and a dusty living room.

I recall walks in the mountains, though, when time was
irrelevant because I was occupied with flowers, fluffy
clouds, twisted mahogany trees, and moss embracing a wet
rock—details in the present.

We hiked this summer a lot, just John and me and the dog,
but I remember a particular walk with Joann and Steve from Reno.

The goal was Lamoille Lake. Our feet kept pace with our
talking, and before any of us knew we had passed the lake
and were standing at Liberty Pass, 10,540 feet above sea
level.
We celebrated at the Wilderness sign with a photo before
walking to the edge of the granite ledge to see Liberty
Lake in the hollow below, and tiny Castle Lake above
Liberty. From above, the lakes are circular, turquoise-blue
jewels bordered in green. (In some years the stream which
flows through that greenery into Liberty Lake is a mass of
blinding pink wild onions.) The sharp granite ridge behind
Castle Lake forms the southern edge of the Ruby Mts dropping
into Ruby Valley.Here's Castle Lake. scroll down past the
little church to see it

More later this week!

Thanks, and See you later.
Janice