Day 94

starwood is going well. camp is running smoothly so far and this fourth week of junior highers is by far the best behaved group yet.

during break today, an australian friend and i went among the thorns to get berries. eat berries. my legs and arms are kinda scratched, but it was good.

tonight, our boss russ took us to his house down in crofton for a video team cookout. a new angle of the mainland mountains caught my eye from the view on the back porch and dill dusted buns were an extraordinary compliment to awesome grilled burgers. we sat around and shared random funny stories about traveling or heard various adventures his band had back in their touring days.

the same girl keeps making comments about the remaining days of camp. i think she said it's now around nineteen or something. unbelievable.

Day 92

hello children. the final week of junior high camp began today leaving one more juniors camp before the youth camp finale. i walked the beach this morning and noticed more pale, fallen leaves had collected at the corners of rock faces and along tide marks. i took the back path up, walking through the place that i'd seen a bear many weeks ago. i was looking for blackberries and wondered if he might be back for the same, but he wasn't. even if he had been, there's now enough blackberries for the both of us. and for the whole camp. and maybe a small army, but this is canada. army?

there are a ton of blackberries bleeding among the green thorns. a fresh, cool breeze floated down the mountain and through the trees. there's still three weeks of camp but summer is starting to slow itself down. the final crew of junior highers are here.


on a complete side note, i've been thinking about the sixties and its music lately. beatles, dylan, cash, hendrix, elvis, etc, etc. what a big decade.

Day 90

the strange sound of blowing handfulls of leaves, falling in pale greens and mellow yellows, made timid appearances today. weird. we marvel that we've only just finished the first week of august and agree that this whole summer has still felt like two or three weeks. now leaves are just beginning to start to call it quits. it's surreal.

the starwood dv kids rapped up their projects today and a couple of the boys came back to hang out during free time. they're cool animated guys who still have boyish laughs and smirking smiles in the fun they make and see. one wanted to learn garage band and as we worked on that, the other messed around with photo booth and was excited to show every picture he took.

tonight is production night but the blackberry bushes around camp now offer their fruit in many places, so i'm going to go make like a bear while i wait for these projects to burn. i can't wait to hit three digits in days.