Walk in the winter woods

 

On the other side of the creek, up a steep bank, is the only road into Montreat, Highway 9 N.

Flat Creek is anything but flat, as it flows over rocks almost continuously.

It's nice to walk in winter, when there aren't as many leaves blocking your view.

Today's quote:

The rising hills, the slopes,

of statistics
lie before us.
The steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.

In the next century
or the one beyond that
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.

To climb these coming crests
one word to you, to
you and your children:

stay together,
learn the flowers,
go light.

Gary Snyder, from Turtle Island