The gift of unassuming goodness

The iterations to land on this image are invisible to all but two people – the graphic designer and me. Photo: stumbled on old files yesterday, from 2010.
So much potential. From 2010.

The gift of unassuming goodness.

The Easter Bunny can’t hold a candle to Santa.

Yet Christmas means nothing without Easter.

In the unexpectedly long duration of atypical Florida beach weather, we (my Family) discovered an unassuming gift.

It is literally monumental.

If we hadn’t been sequestered in our cottage all week, odds are high the gift would still be elusive.

As the years unfold, the gift i write about will become public.

Meanwhile, the gift is changing everything.

The best is yet to come.

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You have to bring the good time with you

Lake McDonald
Lake McDonald “we were there” photo.

 

Lake McDonald wedding
Lake McDonald wedding photo session.

 

Lake McDonald wedding
Lake McDonald wedding party making the most of a cloudy day.

 

Lake McDonald wedding
Time to move to a different angle.

 

You have to bring the good time with you.

Sunny weather.

Cloudy weather.

Doesn’t matter.

You can’t predict, nor control, what hand you’re dealt.

All you can do is make the best of whatever you’re dealt.

Those distant mountains really pop when the sun is shining brightly.

Not so much in cloudy, rainy weather.

Be okay dancing in the rain and letting your own light reach the mountains.

 

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The view from space changes you in a profound way

 

 

 

 

 

Viewing earth from outer space changes you.

Ask any astronaut.

But what about mere mortals on earth?

As we watched this yesterday, 120-seconds in we needed to stop…and i immediately had an epiphany – Glacier National Park is my version of outer space.

 

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The similarities are different

Glacier easy trails
Trail of the Cedars is a flat trail, not quite a mile. Elevation maybe 4,000 feet.

 

Glacier easy trails
Hidden Lake trail is 3 miles round-trip and gains 500 feet elevation.

 

Glacier Hidden Lake Trail
The climb starts at 6,640 feet.

 

Glacier Hidden Lake Trail
Hidden Lake overlook somewhere near 7,000 feet.

 

Glacier Hidden Lake Trail
Mountain Goats frequent the area; it’s their home.

 

Glacier Hidden Lake Trail
Youngster.

 

Glacier Hidden Lake Trail
Hanging close to Mom.

 

Logan Pass parking lot in evening
Logan Pass parking lot thins out after 6pm.

 

Logan Pass parking lot in evening
She has an attentive audience.

 

Two hikes an hour apart. One shaded, short and flat with no visible wildlife. The other trail steep and longer, in the hot sun. The 3,000-foot altitude gain allowed the (hot) sun to feel complementary instead of adversarial. Rewarded with a hairy marmot and two mountain goats on our return descent to Logan Pass visitor’s center.

 

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Seeing the upside is the only option

Waterton, Alberta
Never knew there was a town nearby.

 

Prince of Wales Hotel
The view, in person, is as good as i had imagined.

 

Prince of Wales Hotel painting
Some perspective. The town of Waterton is the peninsula on the right.

 

Waterton, Alberta
Watertown city deer in driveway.

 

Watertown, Alberta city deer
Watertown city deer at crosswalk.

 

Waterton, Alberta
City deer meets kids.

 

Prince of Wales Hotel
Hotel from marina parking lot.

 

Prince of Wales Hotel
From Marina dock.

 

Waterton, Alberta was a delightful mountain lake town. I’d go back in a heartbeat. They had “city deer” that roamed freely in front yards and were kid friendly.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.