This is the path we nervously take down to the river for our 'before breakfast dunking'. As we stand naked and knee deep, we always wonder what we were thinking but it does keep one from getting old too soon. I remember Pa Pa Pete saying he used to go in the sauna and then roll in the snow.
This is the actual place we dunk. It's freezing for five seconds (you can stand most anything for five seconds) but you feel like Rocky on top of the steps when you come up out of the water. You're warm too. The skin sent a message: "HELP, I'm freezing. Send blood. Quick. Don't pass GO. And suddenly you're warm as toast. Works every time though standing there beforehand you're never quite convinced.
Here is the firepit where many a morning we eat breakfast and dry off and many an evening we eat dinner and talk, roast somemores, recite poems, play music, read and try to keep the kids out of the fire.
This shot is of a little overflow table on the front porch. I liked the morning lighting on this one. If anyone wants to visit here, this summer is the time. We can only go if a Clarke goes EXCEPT this summer while Walker is the warden. Hurry and we'll take you.
