refreshment

ontario isn't alberta, and rockwood isn't the rockies, but it's still beautiful nonetheless.

after two weeks of craziness i was finally able to get away for some much needed alone time to rejuvenate. i spent about 3 hours at the rockwood conservation area which is 20 minutes outside of guelph. i "hiked" (after scaling beehive mountain, this was not a hike.) up to this escarpment which overlooked the lake. this is the view from it. i want to go back when the leaves turn colours. although most of the trees there were non-leafy ones. i don't know the technical term. so it might not be that spectacular.

no incidents today. no major incident. a lady asked if it was safe for me to be by myself. oh the things i can't do alone just because i'm a female....like go live in the rockies for a week. so after that comment i started to get paranoid especially since i deviated from the main trail to follow a smaller unofficial trail. worst case scenarios came to mind. i.e. meeting a vicious snake. and i did meet one...except it was 1 cm wide and about 1 foot long sprawled across a log. i get the heebie-jeeebies just thinking about it now. i bolted it out of there after that.

then i drank two gulps of water from the tap near the campsites. it was very piney tasting. blegh. made me long for the fresh spring water from the mountains.