[Wednesday: 5 miles, Thursday: 0, today: ?]
Things are quiet today at the office. I have some stuff to work on, but it is kind of a lazy day.
I was looking through my list of “favorites” on Netscape, trimming things up a bit and ran across a bad link to the Old Faithful web cam in Yellowstone National Park. I found the new link here.
While I watched I was thinking about solitude, being in the mountains and other things.
When we lived in Chicago, I always had the feeling that there were people everywhere. I remember telling my wife, if I were to have a hankering to go down to Lake Michigan on the coldest day of the year, chop a hole in the ice and take a dip in the frigid waters… chances are when I arrived there would be 10 people waiting in line to do the same thing.
On the other hand, when we lived in Estes Park I could look up at the peaks and wonder about the terrible cold conditions and that, most probably, no one was up there. You could see it, but it would be very challenging and possibly dangerous to try to get there from here. The top of Long’s Peak was probably wind swept and uninhabited.
These mountain scenes; I always feel like it’s a lonely place, quiet and peaceful.
I watched the Old Faithful camera a bit. The sun was coming up and the cold weather made the geysers all steamy and stuff.
While I was watching, the camera suddenly shifted to some thing else. Then back to it’s original position.
Vicarious solitude is a bit of a crock.