His beard was long, his scruffy clothes were matted with mud and straw, and he went barefoot, even in snow. At times, his form seemed more animal than human
lower slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State are dense and not much inhabited. But, venturing there in recent decades, walkers might well believe they had discovered an Old Man of the Woods. He wore a brown peaked cap, like an elf’s, on white dreadlocked hair that fell to his shoulders. His beard was long, his scruffy clothes were matted with mud and straw, and he went barefoot, even in snow.
Parked somewhere about the place would be a Gypsy Wagon or two, old Toyota camper vans with their back ends transformed into cedar-wood dens with big glass windows, double beds, propane gas and solar fridges. The first-made of these vehicles was probably the first solar-electricity-diesel hybrid in the world, as far as anyone knew.
His parents had raised cattle and kept pigs and chickens, but he never wanted to build fences or chase cows. Or, for that matter, eat three meals a day of meat cooked in bacon grease, like his father. He was vegetarian early and, though he might have made a good linebacker, inclined more to art and drafting. He began to study building as a third-grader, watching a new gym go up at his school.
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