Things I did:
1. Visited Blue Moon Ranch in Woodland which is a REAL LIVE ALPACA RANCH. I learned all about alpacas for an hour an a half. Then I bought some yearn, spun from Minnie.
2. Hiked up to Hidden Peak (in under three hours, with my dad), topped the ridge, saw the view to the east--nothing but more mountains and blue air--and thought of the first two lines from "Praise to the End!", one of my favorite Roethke poems. I looked up the other two lines this morning.
Arch of air, my heart's original knock,
I'm awake all over:
I've crawled from the mire, alert as a saint or a dog;
I know the back-stream's joy, and the stone's eternal pulseless longing.
Of course, I forgot my camera for both trips (the picture of Minnie is from the Blue Moon Ranch website). And there were baby alpacas.
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