Hidden Vacation Surprises

One of my delights in life has always been hidden surprises.  I used to be delighted to go out into our barn and look for chicken eggs when I was young.  The chickens often laid them in hidden places.  Looking for them was always fun. I have carried that love of hidden surprises into my adult years. 

This vacation I was repairing my double hung windows.  It was an ambitious project for me; 11 windows were either painted shut, had broken sash weight cords, or were somehow non-functioning.  So, I decided to fix them.  But I'd never done it before.  A perfect vacation project.  I managed in the end to get it all done, but the best part of the project was discovering the secret doors on the weight chambers, secured by a painted over screw, that easily opened to reveal the unattached weights (see photo at the left).  A great surprise - and testimony to 100 year old craftsmanship of the original builders.

In northern Michigan two weeks ago I was out on a long solo bike ride, moving through a well known 10 mile section called 'tunnel of trees' along the coast.  The trees were so thick that you most often could only catch a small glimpse of the lake to the west.  Suddenly there was a small, open overlook to Lake Michigan.  And there behind a few bushes were a couple of Adirondack chairs.  Hidden.  Waiting.  Time for a brief stop, a long drought of water and a spectacular overlook.  A cool breeze blowing in off the lake.  A couple of well made chairs that were invisible to the road, unless perhaps you were moving slowly.  Surprises do seem to unfold when you slow down. 

I rode 6 times in a week up in Michigan, then took 5 days off and rode another 5 straight days when I was back in Pittsburgh.  On one of my rides a friend had told be of a side trail I'd never noticed before.  He said there were stone steps descending a steep ridge to the ruins of an old structure.  That was enough for me!  Off I went the next day.  I found the trail, tried to descend the stairs on my mountain bike (too much for me!) and in the end scrambled down to discover this chimney in the middle of a stream/bog.  Just standing there as though it had always been there.  Like a stone tree, standing attentive in vigil, from season to season, from decade to decade.  I'd had no idea. 

And I never would have either, had I not gone looking, slowly, off the path, into the valley.  It was a place with a beauty all its own, reclaimed by the forest and the stream.  Ready for guests.

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Hey,
What a nice blog! I think I remember one of those bikes in the photos!

Deep congratulations upon becoming a grandfather, mate! Well done.

Miss you, loads.
Gavin