Outdoors
Late Summer Hike
September 7, 2008
It's been a little over 2 weeks since we last hiked. We were anxious to get into the woods. It was a perfect late summer day with blue sky, gentle breezes and the air sweet with warm pine. This was our first hike with the new camera. I was so ...
More camp photos
August 25, 2008
I should be doing laundry right now but I'm still in vacation mode, very relaxed and taking it easy on a Monday morning - nice. Suppose I should try to get motivated to do... something.
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 ...
Les Miserables
August 19, 2008
Wrote this post, journal style, 3 days ago on our first day of vacation. Today we have wi-fi access at our campground, in the Maine woods no less. Don't despair, subsequent days improved... Miserable, am I allowed to feel this way when camping? What about selfish? Miserable and selfish, and ...
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.
Blueberries for Brienne
August 7, 2008
Picked pounds of blueberries (hadn't planned to but how could we resist all those berries) on a hike with friends up Bald Mountain this weekend. Read Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey tonight to the kids. I love Maine. var addthis_pub="rtougas";
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 ...
