Well, here we are at the airport way too early as usual.

See you tomorrow in Madrid!

My big trip this year will be to fly to Spain and spend a few weeks walking the Camino

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiagohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago

I’m not religious at all, but religious pilgrimages have always interested me.

I gave myself 6 weeks to walk the 500-ish miles. I won’t need that long, but since I imagine that I’ll only do this one time, I don’t want to rush it.

Anyhoo, I’m off social media for now.  I’ll share pics here for the most part.

TTFN

So this is the post, that I will update, about mom’s ashes. I stole some out of the cookie tin, and made up some small packages for scattering.

I made a list of places to scatter some. All over, really. Some of them were places that she loved, some will be places that I travel to over the next few years.

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I started with the camellia bush outside my side door, cause why not. It blooms several times per year. Now I’ll think about mom every time I look at it.

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Today’s ashes were left at Hendricks Park, at a pretty Canada goldenrod specimen. We came together to this park many, many times.

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So today it was really lovely out. At the river seemed good, so I found a lively spot that mom would have liked. I was worried about getting Lebowskied, so I found a feather to toss and get the wind direction. Would recommend.

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Tonight I was feeling like doing something that mom would have appreciated. At the house I found this pile of Columbine seeds. Probably too old to grow, but not so old that I wouldn’t try to stealth plant them. So I went to the rose garden on Jefferson and spread a little around. Next year, maybe you’ll see some new and obviously out of place flowers. Think of us if you do.

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Today was a day out at Silver falls with Friends. Had a pretty good day. The hamburgers at the Cafe were pretty darn good too.

Also spread a couple of seed packets with the kids’ help. They didn’t understand the assignment but it was fun anyway.

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Yesterday after mom got buried, I killed the day with gunner. We just drove to the beach for no reason, and got to bob creek. It’s one of my favorites. I go to look for rocks there.

Also I spread some Columbine seeds

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Just a packet of seeds today, at the university. The days of peaceful evening walks are almost over.

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Today in Venice I thought why not? It was a nice night and not too breezy lol. I had to time it so that mom didn’t fall onto a passing gondola.

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So I’m here in Rome again, and it’s almost time to go home. I was thinking about mom a lot today. She loved hearing about all the churches we visited. I had one extra ashes so into the Tiber they went.

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So we are in Japan. I’m on the Nakasendo and found a big old weeping cherry tree that looked good. I wasn’t sure if it was OK to do it so I dumped the ashes when only my friend was looking out.

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Here I am in 🇲🇹 Malta at a reconstructed megalithic temple older than the pyramids. Cool.

It’s on Gozo and we had a real nice day taking a taxi around the island looking at stuff.

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As you can see I’m out of the prettily packaged ashes. I gave away a lot to friends and family. Soon they’ll all be gone.

I’m here in switzerland at Europe’s biggest waterfall.

Lovely morning for some remembering.

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Korcula island, Croatia

I’m here with Mufti in Croatia, and we’re having a pretty good time on a cheap sailboat cruise.

There’s a very pretty seawall in front of the Dominican church. Lots of pretty flowers.

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Spain, on the Camino

Lovely last day in Switzerland. Couldn’t have asked for more on this trip.