Happy Birthday to RMK

We used to call her Rachel Marie Otter,
A lover of lakes
And ponds and streams and snow and ice,
Sliding, swimming, skating
Lithe with enthusiasm.
And now it is rock,
Ice, snow, mountains, goats
Ropes, packs, m&ms and cashews,
Energy and muscled legs and Jersey Cows
An otter still,
Having scaled the very stream banks
Where thought impossible.