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Wanderings
Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway. ~Author unknown I mentioned in my last post that this retirement thing is starting to feel real. To confirm it once and for all, I decided to make a trip to the coast this past week. The weather looked Read more…
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It Must Be Real
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. ~Fred Rogers I guess it is really true…I am retired (again). I haven’t had much time to think about it until the last few days what with all the holiday goings-on with family and travel. I have made Read more…
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Dipper
Bird and stream are inseparable, songful and wild, gentle and strong – the bird [water ouzel], ever in danger in the midst of the stream’s mad whirlpools, yet seemingly immortal. ~John Muir I want to share one more highlight from our Colorado trip this past October. The trip was filled with beautiful places, great hikes, Read more…
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Colorado
The mountains are fountains, not only of rivers, but of men. Therefore, we are all, in some sense, mountaineers, and going to the mountains is going home. ~John Muir Back in October, Melissa and I spent a glorious ten days traveling throughout the grand state of Colorado. We didn’t have much of a plan, other Read more…
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Change is in the Air
Summer is a promisory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~Hal Borland There is a change in the air…it doesn’t seem as humid; hurricanes are in the news; and at our house, we are starting to look for caterpillars. Yes, Read more…
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Seek, and Ye Shall Find
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. ~Confuscius This past month, I have tried to find 5 or 10 minutes each day at work to walk around the building breezeways to photograph any moths that were attracted to the lights the previous night. I hope to create a library of Read more…
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Tribute
Wow, what a planet! ~Mary Ann Brittain, May 20, 1942 – March 17, 2019 I’m going to post something a little different this morning. A brief tribute to my dear friend and mentor, Mary Ann Brittain. We attended her memorial yesterday at her beloved Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh. It was a beautiful, hopeful, Read more…
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Anticipation
The sun’s summons will not be answered overnight, but the answer is inevitable. The first hungry bee at the first crocus hums of June, and the first green leaf forecast cool summer shade. All is in order. Spring is the earth’s commitment to the year. ~Hal Borland I have been extra busy this year at Read more…
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Into the Interior – Day 1
Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration. ~Anamika Mishra A trip into the interior of Yellowstone in winter is truly magical. Most of the extensive road system is closed in winter to all but over-snow travel via snowmobiles or snow coaches. We had chartered a snow coach for our group so we could travel Read more…
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Moths in a Storm
Intimate connection allows recognition in an all-too-often anonymous world… Intimacy gives us a different way of seeing. ~Robin Wall Kimmerer As the rains continue to pour down from what was the hurricane that mercifully just glanced by us here in the woods, we are both reading and pursuing some indoor activities. I decided to look Read more…
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