• Florida Trail

    One Year Ago | Southern Terminus of the Florida Trail

    If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed by email! Thanks for visiting! Headed for Ft. Pickens after our friends Randy and Kathy dropped us off on Loop Road. 8 miles of beautiful cypress/sawgrass habitat with some fun and muddy water in the middle! The feather headband didn’t make it too far before it broke. 🙁 Follow some of the 2012 FT thru-hikers as they head to Ft. Pickens or Alabama.

  • Texas,  Travel & Places

    The Other Side of the Tunnel

    On Wednesday I showed you Chris exiting a small tunnel that we found (and I’m sure thousands of other people have too over the years) at Enchanted Rock. These photos show the way we came in. Wayyyy back there we had to squeeze down, crawling a bit. Right before we went through here, Chris slid down between some other rocks to see about it being our potential cave but found it to be a dead end and crawled out after he hoisted his camera gear up to me. Good thing I let him check it out first! I bet there are other nifty places to find there.

  • Hiking,  Texas,  Travel & Places

    Through the Rocks

    One of the photos I processed from our weekend at Enchanted Rock last weekend. We were trying to find a supposed cave but instead we found a slot of rocks to walk/crawl through. I spent most of the weekend shooting in black and white with a red filter on my camera. The landscape seemed to beckon for that type of treatment, but Chris managed to get some color shots that were stunning! I’m going to slowly be working on the rest of the photos. I’m trying to get a baby blanket finished and it is trying my patience and frankly I just don’t want to do it. Instead I want…

  • Gardening

    The Great Carrot Harvest of 2012

    Chris calls me in the middle of work today to tell me he’s picked a bunch of carrots. I’m expecting, you know, a smallish bundle that you might get at the store…not a counter full! He sent me the link to the photos he’d uploaded to Facebook and I exclaimed “Holy Crap” and luckily everyone else was still eating lunch and couldn’t hear me. And so these are some of the carrots we planted back at the very beginning of October. We still have some in the plot that weren’t ready. The varieties are: jaune du doubs (yellow) , little fingers (smaller ones), and red cored chantenay (fat ones). He’s…

  • Thoughts

    2012 | Prolific

    My word for 2011 was Possible, but somehow it turned more into Adventure. I think this was because I put the tagline “Live Adventurously” into my blog header and from then on it stuck. I wrote a little about that on Messy Canvas in the comments, how adventure butted in and took over. I’m not too disappointed that Possible was moved out of the way, but I think both words tend to go hand in hand. Frankly, I thought about making Adventure my word for next year but decided against it since it seemed to take over this year. Instead the first word after that was Productive. The more I…

  • Thoughts

    2011 | In Review

    Miss 2010’s review? 2010 is here I’m going to recap 2011 a little differently than 2010. I always like doing these reviews because it allows me to see what exactly I did without thinking I didn’t do anything at all. Backpacking We thru-hiked the Florida Trail in January and February (and a smidge of March). We hiked theCrosstimbers Trail with my brother and dad. I think we might have started a tradition? Thanksgiving was spent on top of Texas and the subsequent days were spent hiking throughout Guadalupe Mountains National Park. While I didn’t go, Chris spent two weeks camping in various places in remote regions of Florida’s swamps. He…

  • Family

    Two Sweetpeas

    On Christmas Eve I did not get to see these two, my niece and nephew, for very long, only a few hours in the evening. They were both sick and Zoe was dealing with a reaction to the medication she was on, so my ideas of visiting them at their house were sacked. But, I did get to see them for awhile and I got to see Grayson smile and laugh at me, and Zoe made me eat Christmas Eve dinner next to her at her kid table (me in the floor) while she watched ‘kid tv’—aka: Rio. I say ‘made’ me sit with her—but I really didn’t mind. I…

  • Thoughts

    Top 5 Christmas List

    Before I leave for the long weekend I thought I’d do a quick top 5 of my favorites for Christmas. Share yours! Movies A Christmas Story: My absolute favorite Love Actually Bridget Jones’ Diary Little Women It’s a Wonderful Life Songs Carol of the Bells O Holy Night must be by Bing Crosby Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas loving the She & Him version. Last Christmas only because it reminds me of Eliana. Christmas Time is Here Charlie Brown Christmas My brother has been chronicling his favorites these last few weeks. Happy Christmas everyone!

  • Memes

    Lobsters | Retro Photo

    Another photo from the old hard drive. This was in front of our old apartment in Melbourne, Florida, circa 2003. We caught these off of Vero Beach while scuba diving. Probably one of the most fun things we did in Florida and we surely didn’t do it enough. Good times…