Reading and Rambling

Books read:          Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe          What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons          Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte          Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll           Beauties: Essential Stories by Anton Chekhov Trails walked:          West Pinto / Bull Basin / Haunted Canyon / Paradise Loop in the eastern Superstitions (April 3 rd )          Pine Canyon Trail near Payson (April 11 th )          Horton Creek near Payson (April 17 th )          Loy Canyon near Sedona (April 18 th )           Smith Ravine Trail to Spruce Mountain Lookout near Prescott (April 24 th ) Song of the month:         My Sweet Lord by Hurray for...

Books read: These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Trails walked: Barnhardt Trail in the Mazatzals (Mar 6th) Hassayampa River Wilderness (Mar 19th) Salida Gulch near Prescott (Mar 27)   Song of the month: Iowa by Dar Williams from Many Great Companions album:   https://youtu.be/ujQrOdB05to "The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball." -  Bill Veeck      Spring has arrived in the desert.  Here that means spring baseball, wildflowers, art festivals, and crowds of visitors wearing the caps of their favorite teams.  For me it meant food poisoning, which also meant a week indoors with no hiking.  One very positive and strange (to me) event occurred...