Remember This

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on--have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear--what remains?  Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons--the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night. We will begin from these convictions.
                                                                                    --Walt Whiman

Goat

Goat
Originally uploaded by wordwright

We look for spring in unusual ways in snow country. Seeing mountain goats usually means that south-facing slopes are melting and revealing new feeding opportunities. There is a group of regular visitors right near the mouth of the Snake River canyon this time of year.