Back to the falls. The sun was shining in the hills above the fog. The maples in the canyon are glowing yellow. The trees still have most of their leaves, and are releasing them one by one like butterflies. Few hikers were out, most of them in their sixties and seventies. On the path below North Falls, one man we met looked at my beard and said with a smile, “I didn’t know I’d be seeing Rip Van Winkle on this trip.” He was pleased with my immediate reply: “I just woke up!”
October 19, 2023.
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Categories: If It Had A Name
Tags: Beards, Butterflies, Chance Meetings, Fog, Hiking, Journals, Leaves, Maples, Rip Van Winkle, Silver Falls, Smiles, Sun, Trees, Washington Irving, Waterfalls, Yellow
William Michaelian 