Good Morning, Elizabeth,
Are you there? I just wanted to say that I have another day off today. Pearl's daughter decided to stay an extra day, so I don't have to be back until tomorrow morning. So, I am gonna do the usual and stay out of the mid-day heat, then head out later just for another short trip, looking for photos to take.
I'm sorry I had to write so much and bring all that stuff up last night, but I really needed to explain the situation. I still have a little more that I want to add, but I will do that later. I hope you are okay, and I am thinking about you and I Love You. Hope to hear from you. :)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
3:10pm : Just checking in to say that I saw your two posts. I didn't know what to make of them, other than smiling faces (and perhaps the word "yay"!), so I guess, and I am hoping, that you are happy. I am happy and I don't care about those guys or any of the stuff I wrote about last night. They bothered me at the time, and I had to write about them to describe what happened, but I don't care now. Water under the bridge.
I still have to write a little more, and I will do so when I get back. I am gonna do the usual and head back over to Stagecoach. I love it there; it makes me feel like I am back in the 1800s, or even further back in Indian times, thousands of years ago, lol. So, I am gonna drive over there, wander around til late afternoon and then head back. I may stop at Aliso, too, but I will be back no later than 8pm, tops. And I will write more then. I Love You, Elizabeth, and that's something you can always count on.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
7pm : Good Evening, my Darling. I am back, and as you can see (if you saw FB a few minutes ago), I finally found The Devil's Slide, just like I vowed to. It's not all that hard to find, once you get on the correct trail. Anyhow, I found it and I walked all the way to the top of the mountain, and to the trailhead on the other side at a road called Lilac Lane. It was my best hike yet! A total blast, relatively easy, and only about an hour each way. I sure don't know how a stagecoach ever made it down that road, though! They probably didn't have too many repeat customers, lol.
I saw your posts when I got back, and it seems like everything is okay again, so I am happy. France is for sure one of our destinations, and definitely a hike........anywhere!
The one last thing I wanted to bring up (when I said I was gonna write a little more on the subject) is the question of how the whole thing materialised. I mean, it was making me a little nervous because I couldn't and can't figure it out. How did Lillian's name come up, or more to the point, if I am correct that your recent posts (and Tina's post) of Lily Pads, and "Water Lillies" referred to Lillian, then the only possible reason I can think of that you were upset was because of my friend request. In fact, it is the only possible reason because I have had no contact with her. The only thing resembling contact was my friend request, which she never accepted. Hence she is not on my FB "friends" list, so my question is how did her name come up?
You couldn't have seen her on my friends list because she is not on it, and you can't see a friend "request" on FB that is sent by another person. You can only see your own friend requests.
So what I haven't been able to figure out is how you became aware of it? It's freaking me out just a little bit because I thought "What? Did Elizabeth have contact with Lillian? Contact from her"? And then I thought, "that doesn't make any sense at all". Neither one of you would have any reason to contact the other, and in Lillian's case, she is not the type of person who would interfere in my business in that way. At least I can't imagine she would. She has too much else to do with her job. All of my FB posts are limited to "friends", so even if she looked at my profile, all she would see is "lists" (movies, music, etc.) and my photos. Those are the only things I have set to "public". So she wouldn't even be aware of you and I, and I haven't seen her since 1995, so I am sure she would have zero interest in me or my life. She's not out to get me, in other words (and there's nothing to "get" anyway because I am a good guy), so she would have no reason in the world to contact you, and she's just not the kind of person who gets involved in things like that. Not to my knowledge, anyway. And I know you would have no reason to contact her.
So I can't figure it out. If you and Tina (in helping you) both posted "Lillies", which meant that Lillian was the problem, and if she could only have been the problem due to my FB friend request, and if you can't see other people's friend requests on FB, and finally, if it seems extremely unlikely that either you or she would try to make contact with the other (and in her case probably not even aware of you and I), then how did her name come up? How did you become aware of my friend request to her? That's the only thing even resembling contact that I have initiated.
It's no major deal, and I am very glad everything seems okay again, but I am just curious because I can't figure it out, and it seems like intrigue or something. Weird stuff. Anyway, whatever it is you can tell me, even if for some crazy reason she did contact you or vice-versa. You can tell me if you want to, but the main thing is that I am happy everything is good.
I will do the rest of my walk in a little while, then come back and write some more at the usual time.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
10:30pm : Ah, so it's magic, is it? ;) I'm just teasing, saying that because of your post. Whatever the case, it's all good now I take it. All I know for sure is that I Love You and You are my Sweet Baby. And I know you love me, too. :):)
Well, I am all hiked out after three straight days on the trails. I think I'm turning into a Chumash Indian! It's funny, too, because never in my life was I really a "nature" kind of guy. I mean, I always loved being outdoors, and when we were kids and Dad took us to the beach, desert or mountains, we always had fun and enjoyed it, but as an adult it was never anything I sought out. I love going for walks, at CSUN or in my neighborhood, but this trail thing is new to me. It started when somebody posted a photo last Fall, on FB, of the Garden Of The Gods film site at the old Iverson Ranch in Santa Susana Pass. I thought, "wow, I've never even heard of that place and it's just five miles away". I thought it would be good for some photos, so I went there, and the rest is history : Corriganville, Placerita Canyon, El Escorpion, all the different trails in Santa Susana, and finally today the summit. Devil's Slide. So that was awesome.
When I was a kid, 9 years old in the Summer of 1969, I went to YMCA camp. It was a day camp and the kids went home at night, but there were a couple weekends where we stayed overnight on the lawn at Chatsworth Park, which is located at the base of the mountains in my pictures. We had the Santa Susanas all around us and we slept under the stars in sleeping bags, something they probably wouldn't let kids do today. But it was awesome and a little eerie, because the camp counselors, who were mostly teenagers, would tell us scary stories about witches and monsters who lived up in the hills. They liked to scare the kids, haha, but they also told us about the Indians who'd lived there. So when I think about it, it may be some residual effect from my childhood campout days that drew me back there.
Whatever it is, I sure had fun this week. Now that I know where the Slide is, I can make it a recurring hike, every so often.
And one day not too long from now, you can come with me.
I Love You, my Darling! Tomorrow I am back at work, but we will head into a nice weekend and the rest of an awesome Summer, a Summer to remember for certain. Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:30pm : A late night P.S. : I just saw your post about the photographer Krit. He is using locations in our near vicinity. The photo with the guy with his arm raised, wearing all white, is interesting because it looks like it was shot at one of the dry lake beds just north of the Valley, when you are getting near the Mojave desert. The other photo that strikes me, and maybe the one you meant most prominently, is the one with bodies in white amongst sandstone formations, with a pile of rocks in the background. That also looks to be in our vicinity - he says his locations were in L.A. - and my guess once again is that he shot it in the Lancaster area, just over the North end of the Valley. Check it on Google maps if you want to.
I read his interview with Interview mag, in the post, and it's interesting, yet so true, that L.A. is a place of nature. We have this urban and suburban sprawl, but we are surrounded by nature. I am glad he noticed it!
Going out to Lancaster, and especially the Pearblossom Highway, is another one on my list. That is a trip you are definitely coming on!
You rule, my Baby. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox :):)
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