{"id":8359,"date":"2015-03-21T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2015-03-21T06:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:51:06","slug":"first-day-spring-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/first-day-spring-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Morning Mountain Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My beautiful boy and running partner, Pablo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday was the first official day of spring. She returned to us as promised! In truth, it has been spring like weather in the Okanagan since early February.<\/p>\n

The first day of spring on my mountain was misty. In fact, the mist is so thick that, on my morning run, I could not see anything but the mountain as the lake was shrouded is mist.<\/p>\n

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We ran above this white tailed beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mist is magical, but (I admit) I was hoping for a morning of sunshine. My darling daughters are all way from home, visiting friends and relatives. Yet, I have much difficult creative work to do ( the kind that feels like I am pulling out my own teeth), and thus I forced myself up and out of bed early to run with Pablo. Fernando, my pug, is too small to manage our mountain runs; I walk him later in the day.<\/p>\n

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I call this part of my run Billy Goat’s Bluff. I run past this rotten log every morning and I swear it looks exactly like a resting goat looking at the lake below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the sunshine the lake is clearly visible but in yesterday’s pictures, it is cloaked in secrecy.<\/p>\n

On most mornings I stop at the apex of the mountain and sit to clear my mind in the stillness of the early morning. It is one of the best parts of my day.<\/p>\n

The picture below is of a part of the trail I call, Deadly Drop. Two rock faces almost meet and between them is a cliff that drops straight down hundreds of feet below. On a clear day, one can see the lake at the bottom of this drop.<\/p>\n

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Deadly Drop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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