a few random thoughts from a random place

of course now that i sit down to write i can't think of any of my good thoughts i had last week and of course i don't have my little notebook that i write the thoughts in. so maybe next week's thoughts will be better.

anyway there is a fire burning in the hills just beyond the town of ely NV, and the smoke is rising up in such a way to make the sunset look very beautiful.

went hiking over the weekend with my coworkers and we had a nice time at great basin national park. even got some more post cards so i can't blame no media on my lack of letter writing to everyone! and, my posting got moved to sunday because, well, i'm sure i was busy on friday.

last night a few of us went out to get a drink to celebrate jane's birthday. the bars in ely on saturday night were deader than dead (approx 6 people at 1130pm). i wanted to dance. instead, we watched the eagles "hell freezes over" tour on the big screen (played on a dvd i guess). so much for a high energy party night. but i did learn a bit more about the eagles, things like i didn't know don henley was the drummer! how had i gone all these years not noticing this? after the drinks we came home and sat on the porch and looked up at the stars. i got out my star charts and started naming off constellations. we also talked about scottish vs irish and i did a little jigging, and ted asked me where i learned to do all these dances. you know, i guess i just picked them up randomly, wherever i've been. i've lived in a bunch of places so i've had the opportunity to be exposed to lots of kinds of dancing, not just bumping and grinding...but what i would really like to do here in ely is dance a bit and there just isn't those kinds of opportunities. *shrug*

anyway here's a few photos from the week.

the one on the left is when we just started out hiking for the day, the one on the right is a fallen tree upon the entrance to lake teresa.


some pretty flowers along the trail. the one on the left actually kind of smelled like skunk.


some of the rocks we climbed over were really interesting. then we reached the bristlecone pine area where we saw bristlecone pine, limber pine (not pictured), and englemann spruce.




then we trekked on up to the glacier (that's right i said glacier) where there was still snow in the middle of july on a hot day. we didn't believe it till we stood in/on it ourselves.



more tree photos and another view of the lake



looking forward to the next week...we head out to a place called the south ruby mountains, which is supposed to be very beautiful and very dense with plants. oh goodie! catch you next week.