Last Post Here...

After some months since starting and learning more about 'blogging', I have decided to only post to my main Blog called: "Summit Stones & Adventure Musings".

Blogging seems to be like journaling, as in you learn as you go along...

It seemed that each of my original blogs might serve a different purpose, but now these interests have converged... So focusing on the main blog is what I will do from this point on.

I am just very appreciative of the fact that "Blogger", provides this kind of community service and that so many of us are able to write, and share, and discover this most interesting medium...

Please have look at and enjoy "Summit Stones & Adventure Musings".

DSD

Anonymity and The Last Blue Mountain.....

"The acid test of a true adventurer, if presented with certain anonymity, is whether each of us would have still made the journey beyond the last blue mountain." M. Clark

I was told long ago that doing something with no thought of expectations, as in the act itself is the reward, mirrors the essence of what we seek to discover within adventure experiences...

DSD

Discovering Hidden Images.....

"It was not any human voice... It was great and strange... It was like the rock speaking..."

J. Masefield

"If they had any thoughts at all, they were the slow, gentle ones I imagine rocks must have..."

R. Schultheis

I so enjoy discovering hidden meanings within adventure experiences... and also so enjoy trying to find hidden images in old rocks. or painting them within the Summit Stones...

DSD

A 'Giving Back' Season.....

"The mountains and forests want for nothing, yet they are giving of everything... The lakes and oceans share all, yet ask for so little... It is then our choice to give as well... to give back... out of respect... with no desire or expectations of our own..." Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf also said, "If you take that stone, you must give something back."

So... I've gathered small rocks, painted them, and placed well over a thousand now, out on one adventure or another... I call them 'Summit Stones'... They are my simple gesture, of anonymously giving just a little back...

It seems the season to reflect on such gifts...

DSD

"Power Places....."

"This is one of his power places... You sense a spirit here, an unspoken strength. It almost oozes from the rock through its thousands of cracks and crevices. Overhead, ravens soar by...".

A. Hobson

This quote always reminds me of those places I've adventured where such sensations have been present... They are such powerful experiences...

DSD

Alpenglow.......

"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight... it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them , out of memory, and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." Tolkien

The best view of Alpenglow I have ever seen was reflected upon the face of my partner as we climbed above the clouds on to a ridgeline high in the Rockies...

The glow of the rising or setting sun upon the mountains warms even the coldest time of year... My skill is limited in trying to capture a sense of Alpenglow on the small Summit Stones I've painted, but each one seems to be getting closer and closer...

DSD

"Magnificent The Morning Was....."

"Magnificent the morning was, a memorable one, more glorious than I'd ever beheld. The seas were laughing in the distance. All the solid mountains were bright as clouds, tinted, drenched in imperial light. While in the meadow and the lower ground lay all the sweetness of a common dawn." Woodsworth

Just reflecting upon the many mornings on our adventures this past year.......

DSD