Photos!
One of my greatest joys lately has been hiking and camping with my son and the dogs up in Shenandoah National Park. I love getting away from the traffic noise and congestion, up into fresh breezes and soaring elevations and nights cool enough to really relax into. I am ever fascinated by rocky outcrops and overlooks. And campfires—who doesn’t love campfires?

We’ve been able to take two weekend trips up into Shenandoah this spring, and I’ve finally managed to download the photos I took. I’ve posted some of the best to my Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/8556491@N07/), but I’ll drop one in here as a teaser. Left to right, that’s my son with his beagle, Beenie, the son of the family we hike with, myself and my dog, Kay, and the mom of our hiking buddies, posed in front of a waterfall as we hiked down to Rapidan Camp/Camp Hoover.



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The revision slog continues. I’ve pushed my way through two of the three major changes I wanted to make to Kith and am almost halfway through the book. I keep moving by promising myself that I’ll take a break, oh dog! a break, and read some stuff and watch mindless TV and wander around looking at pretty things until my brain cools off enough to maybe create some new words. There is life after Kith - there’s Satisfaction, the pirate story (Josh’s story, for those who joined me in struggling through novel_in_90) and there’s Bells, both of which have problems that need working out.

Mostly, though, I just want some down time.