hiking | hiking
Apr.05.2013
I spent two summers in the Appalachian mountains in the late '70's. The first year, I sold passes to the tourists who drove up the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Skyline Drive, where I greeted them from the tiny ranger station at the southern entrance. The second summer, I tooled around on a...
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Feb.06.2013
For over fifteen years I’ve hiked the same trails, encountering many mammals, insects, reptiles and birds. One of my favorite encounters is the roadrunner. Here, in Southern California, the breed is known as the Greater Roadrunner, taxonomically classification: Geococcyx Californianus, meaning "...
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Jan.30.2013
There are thousands of make-up products one can slap onto their face but it will never take the place of the healthy glow we get from exercise. During the winter it's hard to get outside and "play" and the cold weather can dry and weather your skin but there's no substitute for a blood-pumping walk...
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Dec.27.2012
Saludos a todos from Spain!
I am in Ruitelan, a tiny hamlet just a few kilometers from O´Cebreiro in the westernmost reaches of the Spanish province of Castilla y Leon on the medieval pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela. My two daughters, Lucy and Grace, and I left last Thursday for...
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Sep.19.2012
A fellow photographer and colleague recently posted this link on his Facebook page and it caught my eye. A Dad and his daughter were recently rescued in Yosemite when they got trapped in this dangerous valley I once photographed - check out the article to read more: http://www.nps.gov/...
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Aug.22.2012
Maggie needed three Book Sox (visual aid above).
Material book covers in fancy colors, some of them have photo pockets and new this year...scratch and sniff cloth book covers. Someone like me sees that and thinks, "Won't that get all dirty and nasty if people are always scratching it?"...
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Aug.13.2012
I woke up wanting to hike the mountain, the open space where the cows graze, where I can see out past the city and into the hills. M. doesn't care for hiking the way I do. He was still sleeping, but had stirred since he heard me moving around. I touched his arm lightly and whispered that I was...
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Jun.08.2012
Marriage is a tough business. Anyone that says it's not, that it's easy, is either lying to you or to themselves.
Two people, different interests, different families, backgrounds, hopes, ambitions that make it through the ridiculousness of dating to a proposal. A deal, they make...
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Apr.08.2012
It has been over ten years since I have fished trout here in the state where I grew up. This is a therapy I patiently await. This coming Saturday, April 14th, is the first day of trout season here in Verrmont and with the reduced winter snows, the early warming of the lakes...
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Mar.21.2012
The sun is sinking low in the western sky, on a perfect track with the road I live on that runs in a straight line from east to west. This is the time of year that folks around here usually keep snow boots and shovels in our cars in anticipation for yet another snow storm, but the temperature...
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