Jeff Street Picnic at Deams Lake

Deams Lake
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We had an unbelievably perfect day yesterday picnicking at the shores of Deams Lake. The weather was fantastic, the water relatively clean, the company enjoyable.

A few quotes to honor the day:

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

~Sherlock Holmes

It's clear to me that I will return here, as well as to other wilderness frontiers within me -- whether next year or some time later -- because I know that what the river says is what I need to hear: to know myself, to feel wild again, to confront my own limits and move beyond them into the untamed country on the other side.

~Jeff Wallach

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.


~AA Milne