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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Go With Love

The trees that greet me in the parking area...a bold welcome as we head out to wherever it is we go.

"Love is Little," a traditional Shaker song performed by Zambra

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From the description box:

Purchase our music at https://zambrasingers.bandcamp.com/ “Love is Little” is a traditional Shaker song. The Shakers created many lovely hymns, and this song dates to the 1850s. Cellist and composer (and dear friend) Barry Phillips first wrote this arrangement of Love is Little for the Santa Cruz-based ensemble Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chant Choir, who were kind enough to share it with us many years ago. It has been a staple of our live concerts ever since. We love its gentle reminder of the importance of those small acts of love. The world needs them, now more than ever. Thank you, everyone, for bringing your light, your love, your kind acts of mercy. Love is little, love is low, Love will make my spirit grow, Grow in peace, grow in light. Love will do the thing that’s right. Guitar: John Hopkins Arranged by Barry Phillips Audio mixed by Andy Zenczak Video produced and directed by Kathryn Veditz Cinematography by Andy Zenczak and Teo Morrell Recorded by Zambra in Santa Cruz, California. For more information, contact: https://zambra.org/

Another "park"...visited before, but not entirely. Still not entirely explored as it is a large multi-purpose area. The Community Center building is where we've gone to vote in the past. Monday we took in some of the park's nature trails and explored the paths and amenities available. A large gymnasium, 3 pools, a skate park, bike park (track and "pump track"- 6:05 minute explanation and visual - I had no idea!!), basketball courts and a memorial fill out the tiered property. We've enjoyed visiting or revisiting local parks, knowing full well that we will never uses many, okay, most of the amenities discovered. However it is nice to see what is out there for others. As we explore, we discuss if a location is worth returning to in the future. There are some paved paths here that we may go back to some day.

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I took two CMB with me today (103 planted)...we went to the over the hill area from where we planted the last one...to where "same rock found twice" lived (lives?). I haven't been here for years. We usually go on the left side of the hill. Anyway, I've been wanting to go back to this old trail for a long time. Today was that day.

We were greeted by a red tail flying towards the sun. 🙂

I hold myself within the sunshine & shadows, the brightness of the earthen hillsides, the sparkle of the golden trees and the feel of the shaded spots, scent of the sages and feel of the earth beneath my feet.

You can see the bit of water down the slope in the photo above. This is where "same rock found twice" lived. The last time I saw it was at the top of the slope, when I placed it on a log and left it behind. That was back in 2015...10 years ago!!! That log is decayed a lot since then. There have been rain storms and other travelers over the years...so, where did that rock go?

Below, you can see one of the CMB on the fence post. The second one is off camera to the left. It was tricky to plant them, as there were people in the parking lot, so hard to be stealthy!!

What things (items) do you recall like you saw them yesterday?

May you find what you are looking for

May you not mourn too much what is left behind

May you visit and revisit beautiful places

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Happy Valentine's Day Y'all

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Here's hoping y'all felt the Love today!

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May you give and receive Love

May you feel loved

May you Be love

Monday, February 13, 2023

Several Miles, Less Than One Hour, 60+ Degrees

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Placerita Canyon Nature Center

Today the stream...or is it, creek was running. We've only seen this once before, years back.

I wished I could put a recording of the tinkling music here. I stood, hanging over the bridge, and listened.

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I found some Time Markers

And some amazing growth

The light stopped me in my tracks again and again.

There were not too many folks there on this Monday, it was quiet. But, I felt a bit watched at the same time!

Smile!

As we sat quietly, these little birds came out, one after another. Maybe Junkos? There were many more than I could capture in one photo. They had such a funny hopping, jumping walk. I felt like we were the young girl in PLAY WITH ME, sitting quietly while the birds explored . That is, until an elder came with her dog...when they all flitted away!