Camping, canoe and camera

B, now back from Atlanta (yay!), and I spent the weekend camping with a couple of friends in an almost-desert. 50 mm less rain annually and it would have made the cut. It rained while we were there, walking through the dunes.

We also took a canoe onto the river. We paddled hard upstream and didn't have to do much at all going back. I have no idea how long we were out there, but long enough to knock us all out once we got back to the campsite. It didn't rain at all while we were canoeing.

The river winds a lot so the view from the canoe changed with every turn. There was one point, when everyone else was doing the work, where I could just sit and drink in the scenery. Everything seemed so serene. I didn't have the camera with me, but it was sunny, and a little bit hazy, and the trees drooped over the river bank except for a little bit of a clearing where you could see the rail line. I don't think that that point was any more beautiful than any other part of the river, but it made me feel really peaceful.

I don't actually have a camera. I'm not really interested in taking pictures. Now that I've started this blog though, I think I need to start taking at least a small interest, just enough to make the writing a little more interesting - like a picture book! So, I've borrowed a camera for a few weeks from my institutional learning facility. I will take many pictures in that time.