Yesterday’s run was incredible. I’d meant to post pictures but I’ve been a bit disorganized of late.
Phoenix came along with me and read in the car while I ran.
Afterwards she asked if I wanted to see her and her friend Sasha’s favorite place to go – “the Bay”. These girls and a handful of other kids regularly come out to play, sometimes coming back more sand-encrusted and wet than you can imagine! (Whereupon we put them in a hot bath and make them a lunch and wash their clothes and find them dry ones.)
First she showed me the fort that someone else built; later she showed me a space about twenty feet away they used for their “bathroom”.
Then she led me out to the sandbar area.
She asked me if I liked it there and I said Yes. “I’m impressed, Phoenix. I didn’t even know about this place and I grew up right around the corner.”
My daughter showed me the “reeds” they’d harvested to begin making beds. Phoenix has such grativas and an incredible gift of expression and vocabulary: I forget sometimes she’s still a very little girl.
Then, Toilet!
Crab claw!
I don’t know what this is but I’ve seen many of these markings on many logs. My guess is this log was used as a staging area to cut other pieces of wood. I was not aware driftwood made much sense to use as firewood. In fact I don’t think about driftwood much at all and I’m not even sure if it’s legal to remove. I’ve been surrounded by driftwood my whole life and accept it as a natural wild beauty but a given. It isn’t until people visit me (or see pictures while reading my journal) that I realize it isn’t something everyone sees every day.
The run felt wonderful; I was honored, too, to get a glimpse of my girl’s private world.
spectacular! those kids have really been working down at the bay 🙂
I remember my private “fort” with such fondness. SO much.
That’s really amazing! And you are SO fortunate to have that incredible beauty surround you at all times.
Beautiful! (And you have a small fortune in raw materials all around you, ha ha.)