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Saunter

Rain lilies. We’ve had rain lately, but the deer are still eating the zinnias and runner beans.

The guitar carves our saunter in the woods, with a nod at our footfall by the man picking base. Fiddle follows the sweat sliding down warm arms, smooth slippery sounds of summer. A lively banjo details the levity of the rippling brook we walk along, the darting cardinal family, the scampering squirrels and the sunlit leaves. Johnny Cash fuses the layers of sound in a baritone honeycomb. I smile down at Chas, who always shouts for me to play “Ring of Fire” in the car. And over at Ford, who has recently discovered the geological significance behind that song’s name; engrossed as he is, now, in volcanology.

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4 Comments

• On 06.23.06 Charmaine said:

  I love the top photo. There are some great shadows and light patterns being created.

  That’s great your boys love Johnny Cash. I’m assuming, I guess, that’s the version you’re playing.

• On 06.23.06 Steph said:

  Thanks!
  And yes, Cash is way high up in their playlist; but there’s something about ‘Ring of Fire’ that they really like–they ask me to replay it over and over again. It’s a totally cyclic song.

• On 06.23.06 Amy said:

  I was just going to ask where do you get to hike to live music. That is SOO Austin! Ha…

  Don’t you love the rain lillies and the blooms on the silver sage bushes — the plants announcing the miracle that is summer rain!

• On 06.23.06 Steph said:

  Well, in this case, I had on my iPod so I could have a low-volume soundtrack to our walk
  (I love that I can listen to music and still listen to what the kids have to say).

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