The Wormlips Scrapbook

At last — in case anyone cares — here is documentation of my trip to West Virginia: eight days of hiking hiking hiking condensed into a six-minute slideshow featuring an appropriately bluegrassy soundtrack. All the photos were taken on Dad’s farm, except when I accidentally wandered off by following the wrong ridge. On my connection the slideshow takes a couple minutes to load, unfortunately. Once it’s ready for you, a little “play” triangle will appear in the lower left corner of the movie screen.

Next, below is a little time-lapse photo thing I put together, also with a lovely little soundtrack. If you try to load this at the same time you load the thing above, your system will choke. I took the photos from the deck of our house. Dad built that thar snake fence years ago:

And here are a few stills. This is my still-beautiful, nearly-80-year-old mother who gave birth to three odd-looking children:

Here is a picture Molly took of me visiting my father in Lewisburg:

And here is a picture Lulu took of me as I snoozed on the flight home. I found it by accident on her photo blog. I should sue her:

As promised, three videos from our trip to the Trinity Alps this week.

What I did upon encountering a wee patch of snow:

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A wee narrative about a stream and its surroundings:

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Cheryl and Jill and a wee thunderstorm on a mountain lake:

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Hi, friends. Sorry I haven’t written for a long time. I’ve become increasingly aware of how boring this blog is.

However, newly returned this afternoon from a short backpacking trip to the Trinity Alps, I will succumb to the desire to show-and-tell. Actually, I don’t feel like writing so I’ll put this up in the form of a gallery with plain old captions. I’ve edited the photos down from 400-plus to 36 images.

As you probably remember: click on a thumbnail to see a medium-sized view. When the medium-sized view is visible, click on its white link below to see the big picture.

Note: Before we left for our trip, a ranger told me that the fires and air quality weren’t a major problem where we planned to visit. But by the time we arrived, the south road into the wilderness had been closed. We took a three-hour detour and dropped in from Callahan. You’ll see from the photos that there was a lot of haze but, except for some stretches when the wind changed and our eyes and throats burned, it wasn’t bad.

Another note: All the photos of me are thanks to Jill.

Next entry after this: three videos from the trip.

Okay, here ya go — pictures of Tangle Blue Lake and environs.