Contentment by design - Living

New Year's Eve. Oftentimes when we hike up to the reservoir at Buttonrock Preserve, we sit on a rock ledge on a small inlet, right next to an ancient, gnarled Ponderosa that, as many of them do, appears to be growing out of solid rock. It looks kind of like a large bonsai with part of its trunk growing horizontal to the ground.

Much of the trunk is an aged weathered gray that speaks of what has certainly been much more than 100 years under the blazing high country sun, but the underside of the horizontal section also reveals some flashes of brilliant burnt orange, a glimpse of long ago youth.

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