A week ago Sunday, just one night in my own house, I went tired – exhausted actually – from travel, emotion, getting settled… and sore from chronic back stuff that is slowly coming around – to visit my friend Kris. She and her husband, Hal, have been building their current home over the last several years while living with Kris’ mother so as to allow her to remain in her own home. Kris’s mother has since passed on and that house is for sale – Kris and Hal are now in their new home on a secluded and beautiful piece of land with gorgeous larch and aspen, magnificent views of the mountains and ravens…

I don’t remember my back hurting after I stepped out of the Jeep, smelled the pine, felt the soft breeze and looked at the mountains through the trees. We took a walk around with the dogs, Arrow and Karl, before even going in the house….then sat in the light filled living room that looks to those same mountain views and talked…another walk with the dogs in a different direction. I drove home refreshed after visiting with my friend.