Least Bittern: Arriving at Sierra Hot Springs

Arriving at Sierra Hot Springs


Sierra Hot Springs

in the very beautiful Sierra Valley

in northern California

is a welcome way point

on my journey to Oregon

to visit family.



I stopped in at the lodge,

registering late at night,

camped by the meditation pool

and awoke to ponderosa pines,

marsh willows, and a grand, open valley.



I first went into the pool,

then to the lodge,

where, in the green room,

I heard chanting of kirtan,

and a harmonium.

What a pleasant sound.


A woman came out,

with a bindi.

Is she Spanish?

And then a girl

- her daughter? -

with a bindi, as well.


I never saw this here before.



The wood in the lodge here

is beautiful, and settling ~

an expression of California.



To the pool in the Dome soon.

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Ixobrychus exilis (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)

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Least Bittern







(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/06/least-bittern-arriving-at-sierra-hot.html - June 15, 2009)