Metaphorical Mammoth…Trip Phase 2
After two days in Shawnee, we struck camp and headed out south and east. Steve suggested Mammoth Cave National Park as our next destination. He’d never been there, and I hadn’t been there in over 40...
View ArticleGenerating an Odyssey…Trip Phase 3
After camping for 2 nights at Mammoth Cave, we headed east toward the Daniel Boone National Forest. We stopped at a public library to use the internet to get directions to a campsite, and were pleased...
View ArticleHistoric Before Pre-historic…Trip Phase 4
Leaving the National Forest and re-entering the 21st century was a bit of an adjustment. How ironic that we fled from a generator only to find ourselves in a modern hotel room with no less than 14...
View ArticleSandy
So, hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast on Monday night. Yesterday, the waves on Lake Michigan topped 20 feet and many stretches of lakefront were closed. Today, Steve & I took a walk on the beach...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Unique
I really like the photo posted on The Daily Post at Word Press today for the photo challenge. The single, blooming red tulip in a field of budded yellow ones is an immediate visual image of what it...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Up
What’s “Up”? This week’s photo challenge theme…a movie I never saw…my youngest child’s very first word (although she said it ‘uppy’ meaning, “Please pick me up, Mommy!”). What’s up with me? I’ve...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Culture
This week’s prompt for the photo challenge is “Culture”: a broad topic, an umbrella under which humanity sits. I tend to spend more time with the artifacts of a culture than with big groups of people....
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Life is a beach
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View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
The first and last hour of sunlight in the day is what photographers often refer to as “The Golden Hour”. I am not the dedicated kind of hobbyist that will actually go out looking for that kind of...
View ArticleAround the World in 24 Hours
Milwaukee can be a rather uninspiring place in the dead of winter. Not that the light, feathery, cotton candy snow that piled up overnight wasn’t beautiful. As we walked to the breakfast cafe to meet...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Monument
This week’s prompt page from The Daily Post says this about monuments: “They insist on their own importance, but at the same time allow locals and tourists, pilgrims and accidental visitors, to share a...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: On the Move
“On the move” in an accelerating society with handy pocket-sized digital cameras may manifest in a blur of city lights and speeding vehicles. That’s not my style. I don’t have a smart phone, and my...
View ArticleAn august gathering of birthdays
If you ask around, you may find that families sometimes have uncanny clusters of birthdays. For my family, that cluster occurs in August. Both my maternal grandparents had their birthdays in August,...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Fray
It just so happens that I spent two hours sailing aboard the S/V Denis Sullivan today; some of that time was used to photograph rope. I also hauled line to help hoist the sails….not that it did much...
View ArticleCelebrating 50 Years of Wilderness Protection
“It’s a time for celebration! 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act, the landmark conservation bill that created a way for Americans to protect their most pristine wildlands for...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Adventure!
I am late jumping into this week’s challenge because I’ve been on an adventure! I’ve been in California for the last week visiting family and taking excursions. I lived in CA for 15 years, but it’s...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Descent
I wish I’d taken my camera up to Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument. I did not. But those ladders were thrilling! Here’s a shot from tripadvisor.com: photographer unknown The descent is...
View ArticleWilderness and the Myth of Nothing
“There’s nothing out there! It’s a barren landscape. Why would you want to go there? Why should we preserve that useless place?” Nothing out there, eh? Well, if that’s Nothing, it’s pretty...
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