Six Mile Hike

In keeping with my plan to maintain fitness despite Doctors Orders, I hiked six miles yesterday, to the top of Big Bearpen again and then along Lower Lake Road and up Sunset Rocks and back.  I will consider the cataract surgery a success if my intraocular pressure remains at an acceptable level because the goal, after all, was 20/20 vision in my left eye, and it is clearly close to that.

What a great view from the top of Sunset, with my new lens implant, looking down on the Town spread out below me.  Were it not for trees blocking the red light on Main Street, I think I could have seen it cycle through from red to yellow to green.  I could count the windows on the front of Highlands Inn.  Vision is a wonderful thing, after all, and we do take it for granted.  That is why our language is filled with images (images!) about sight: insight, far-sighted, visionary, a light to my path.  I can see for miles and miles and miles.  With such great clarity!