Monks and soulmates

The first story illustrates well how I had told A about a friend of mine who had done something I wasn't in agreement with. Three days later A asked me about the friend. I had completely forgotten the incident and was quite surprised and annoyed that he was even talking about this.

This website nails what a soulmate is.

Hiking at Pt Tomales, Point Reyes.

This is a bit past the halfway point

 Hiking in sand is NOT fun.

 The weather changed from this

 to this

 Very pretty towards the late afternoon.