We are drawing near the end of our stay here
in Deming -- less than a week away. It seems almost like a graduation, a moving on, and we do plan to be present for our son Neal's graduation from West Salem High School in early June.
Agapi and I will be traveling for close to a month, up to Oregon (for Neal), then across
the States back to Ohio. We will miss the dry sunny weather and
the desert wildlife and vegetation and distant mountains. No
question. We also will be glad to get back to our community of friends and
forest and college town.
It will be incredibly great to see Neal in
Oregon, and to live near Maura again in Columbus, and to have Jesse
within one day driving distance in New Bern, NC. On our return in late June, we will have missed the spring season in Ohio, plunging right into summer -- hot,
sticky, and uncomfortable -- but, again, surrounded by friends,
attending drumming, going to potlucks and other get-togethers.
Here are a few departing shots of the Florida (pronounced "floreeda") Mountains as viewed from the front porch of the house here in Deming. Most are of the many moods of sunrise rather than sunset. So really not an end at all. With that in mind, I leave you and this project with one of my favorite quotes from transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau:
"Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me"
