Sharon Chooses High Elevation and High Temperature. Thursday, August 26, 2010. I walked into another canyon today, another mouth gaping open toward the great valley, another alluvial fan like an out-hanging tongue where deposits of river wash slope down and spread like the full skirt of a sitting woman. But in the mouth of this canyon, I see not the dry rocks of yesterday, but rather some green things, alien to this unvegetated world.

Sharon Hawley Flies North for the Winter. See a Google Map of International Falls, Minnesota. Sunday, January 24, 2010. Ten days after leaving International Falls, I realize I did not say a proper goodbye or convey to anyone listening that I have enjoyed your company. My going was too soft and too hard, too happy returning and too hard to leaving. What I found is mostly put down in these sixty-two blog posts. It is not what I expected. Thank you for reading and for your comments. Tuesday, January 12, 2010.

Sharon Hawley visits Oakridge, Oregon, a small town that nearly died a few years ago because the logging and lumber industry died. Now it tries to reinvent itself, somewhat successfully in summer, but not in winter. Thursday, March 10, 2011. Tomorrow morning I will head for Southern California, away from the dense, damp woods of the Oregon Cascades. Leavings are hard; I seldom feel good about them. A wave came to Oakridge, rose and broke, and some say it can happen again.

Thursday, June 28, 2012. How do the rest of you take leavings? I left Tennessee, after a seven-year itch that stopped itching. I left New Mexico after a six-year itch that was really scratching Tennessee. I left Ventura to escape from work and go places like Dunsmuir, California. And tomorrow morning, I will leave Dunsmuir. Monday, June 25, 2012.

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