Family Life & Kids
I'm on my way from misery to happiness
August 24, 2008
(anyone remember the proclaimers song "i'm on my wey from misery to happiness todaey, uh huh, uh huh", man I love that song) Somewhere up the Aziscohos mountain trail, or maybe looking out over Mooselookmegunticook or Umbagog Lake (I am not making these names up) I lost the self-pity, intense ...
Belly Dancer
August 16, 2008
Went to the Great Falls Balloon Festival this evening with the kids. Couldn't get any good shots of balloons, need a better camera for that, but I did have fun taking pictures of the belly dancers.
Hosting Hikers and Fellow Pilgrims
August 14, 2008
We're all on a journey, a trek through life. Too bad more people don't live by the creed, "travelers on this journey of life take care of fellow travelers". What a nicer world that would be.
Earth Expedition comes to Maine
August 11, 2008
Ack! I haven't blogged for 3 days. I'm starting to twitch. It's been a busy weekend. The sun shone (hallelujah!) and once the flood waters in the backyard receded I tried to rescue the beans and staked leggy perennials. We had a supper around the firepit with friends and watched ...
Living Summer on Tumbledown Mountain
July 28, 2008
Yesterday we lived summer, under a bright blue sky. Hiking up and through a rushing brook, wading in a mountain top pond, picnicing and snoozing on the rocks, eating handfuls of wild blueberries. Tumbledown Brook Waterfall East Corner of Tumbledown Pond Webb Lake, Mount Blue State Park Wild Blueberries on ...
Summer day moments
July 11, 2008
Summer is simply heavenly some days. Even though no day is perfect, summer (at least for my garden, farm, beach, woods, mountains, outdoors happy family) tends to have more perfect "moments".
The rest of the camping story
July 7, 2008
Ok, so Friday was a tough day. I guess looking back it wasn't quite so bad. All I had to do was hike uphill (both ways it seemed) 5 miles through bug infested forest and muddy bogs. I take that back, it was nasty. Saturday however, was a gift from ...
