I leave early tomorrow morning for a four-day retreat in the mountains with a group of women friends. It's a trip we've taken every October for years, a long weekend that we jokingly call The Wild Women Weekend. We'll stay in a place owned by my friend Signing Woman's family, a camp with a big fireplace and floor-to-ceiling glass windows that overlook Lake Named After Dead King, or Maybe One of the Beatles.
Our plans include canoeing and hiking, eating and talking. We'll find a mountaintop in the sun where we can relax and soak in the last sun of the season. We'll walk the winding roads to a nearby church that has an outdoor labyrinth at the edge of the lake. We'll have time for things like reiki and meditation and massage. We'll talk, sometimes in a big group, raucous and laughing, and sometimes in quiet pairs, for serious in-depth discussions.
Over the last year, one woman in the group has filed for divorce, one has lost her partner to cancer, one has become a grandmother. Several of us have sent children off to college. So we're likely to have some serious talks as we sit in front of the fire, but we'll have fun, too, playing music and dancing and being silly.
This photo is from last year: Reiki Woman and Beatiful Hair talking in the sun.
17 comments:
Sounds like a great time. Enjoy yourself!
What a beautiful place to spend the weekend; have fun.
Have fun joe, I hope one day I'll be able to do something like this,alas I'm stuck in the city for now. Take a bunch of pictures!
Thank gods for those times!
Thankfulness for those times - have a wonderful time.
have a great time! THe weather's going to be beautiful, not very fall like though, good for canoeing anyway.
Sounds like so much fun.
I know it will be wonderful.
If you keep posting these beautiful pictures, we are all going to pack up and move there and, you know, just wreck everything!
Ah, have a lovely time!
KathyR is right. I'm ready right now. Your pictures do something I can't explain to my heart. God, what beauty!
Sounds wonderful. I could sure use a weekend like that. Make sure you hang some bras by the fire, just for posterity's sake.
Sounds like heaven.
Oh, I am jealous. My women friends are off on our week-end, and I'm not there. Hope yours is wonderful.
Hope you had a great time. Sounds a wonderful time.
You are always on a great trip! Color me envious!
WOW! Incredible color! OH, I miss fall color (no good color here yet, anyway) and retreat with women friends.
I tagged you for a desktop meme on No Polar, but it seems frivolous in the face of all the cool things you're doing.
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