two dogs standing in a leafy wooded area with bare trees and scattered green vegetation | Two large dogs walking together on a paved path next to a mossy stone wall and green grass on a cloudy day

26 May~2012

My dogs like it when our journeys are up past the trees, into the wide spaces of the alpine. They are Colorado dogs, and think nothing of standing on an outcrop a step away from a several hundred foot dropoff. I get nervous about it, especially when I see Ben stumble coming back up the front side of a ledge. I move away and give them the command to stay close.

These dogs are the world to me, and I go to great lengths to make them happy. In doing that I am also pursuing what makes me happy as well.

On the way back down the ridge, all of us paused at the edges to look below, or at the peaks across the valley. Letting the mystery and beauty sink in, to take hold in our hearts, again.

A dog standing near the edge of a rocky cliff under a cloudy sky with distant snow-capped mountainsRocky mountain ridge with patches of snow under a partly cloudy blue sky, and a black dog cautiously standing on the edge of a large rock outcrop overlooking the valleyTwo dogs standing on a mountain slope with patchy snow, looking out towards distant snow-covered peaks and a forested valley belowThree dogs standing on rocky ground on a mountain with snowy peaks in the backgroundThree dogs exploring a rocky alpine ridge with patches of grass and snow under a bright skyTwo dogs standing on a rocky mountain ledge near snow patches under a bright partly cloudy sky

black and white dog standing cautiously among rocky terrain on a mountain ridge with snow-covered peaks in the background

"He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds.

- Gene Hill