The way has been rolling and green, under patchy cover of verdant, coniferous canopy today. Fallen trees, debris, small ponds, insects fill the narrow, closed views surrounding. I am feeling tired, a fatigue working through my body on this our 10th day of hiking in Oregon. The heat of the day brings relief from the swarming insects and we swim in the larger of the lakes, cleaning ourselves, breast-stroking out into the deeper waters away from shoreline, splashing, and finally just floating, face up, lungs full of air keeping our white bodies buoyant, drifting -- the view is a canvas of flat, brilliant blue, framed in the needlepoint of silhouettes -- dark greens and fuzzy browns, fir forest kingdom crowns.
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