Sunday before last, Grey, the Beats and I met up with Rain and her boys, Cadet and Pumpkin, to take a train ride through a Redwood forest. It's the second time Rain and I have seen one another in real life and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt how much more amazing she is in person. Most gratifying was watching Cadet and Pumpkin play with the Beats. Two different paths of resolving infertility dancing in front of survivors was a bit surreal.
At the end of the train ride to the top of the mountain, we passed a small grove of Redwood trees. Walking back to this grove investigate, Grey and I found ourselves overwhelmed at the sight of these creatures. The smell, the feel of the wetness in the air and the sight of this Redwood Cathedral was enough to bring tears to my eyes.
Oh how fantastic! Both the visit with Rain and the fantastic redwood grove. Your picture takes me back to my teenage years when I hiked through a similar, albeit younger, grove nearly every day during summer breaks. There is something so majestic about looking up into a redwood canopy. Wishing you nothing but happy tears going forward!
ReplyDeleteOh, beautiful. I love redwoods and got to see them last summer in person, but all of this is such a beautiful interweaving of friendship and survival and things that last.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. A beautiful reunion of infertility survivors, and beautiful redwoods, that I really want to see! (We have tall Kauri trees, but they are far from here, so I don't get to enjoy them often at all.)
ReplyDeleteJoyous and wondrous, for sure. Such majesty in those pix!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. In so many ways.
ReplyDeleteMy great aunt had photos of herself at the base of the big redwood you could drive through (which I understand is sadly no more) -- I always wanted to see it for myself! How nice that you managed to get in a visit with a fellow survivor too!
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