A couple months ago *we* turned south for the morning photo walk. This time I chose north. The ducklings wouldn’t cooperate, I’ll try again another day. They were so hidden in the grass I could barely make them out at all.
Today’s direction for the walk/jog is north. 
The house we live in was an accident. It was never meant to be a house, really. My in-laws built it almost thirty years ago as cheap as they could because when their house up north sold, they were going to build their dream house. Meanwhile they had spent the entire summer living in a…
Although the main focus of this blog is the written word, there is more to my life than writing and reading. More than walking, too, though it does take up 1.5-2 hours of nearly every day for me since I joined a few friends last year in an online walking blog. I’m currently about 2/3…
Today we went for a hike and to find a couple of geocaches. Since Jim got his GPS unit last spring, we’ve been doing a bit more *tourist in the hometown* stuff. We didn’t know these rocks were worth climbing before! We also didn’t know there were petroglyphs in the area. The pile of rock…
It’s been a couple years probably since I’ve posted a photo tour of where I walk daily. This morning it was -15 Celcius (about +5F) and the hoar frost was intensively beautiful. I waited till the sun came up (after 9) to walk Brody and grabbed the camera. We’ve had only a couple of small…
Technically the correct term is pictograph for rock paintings. Petroglyph seems to mean rock carvings, though around here and around the web I hear/ see petroglyph for both most of the time. In googling the words pictograph and Kootenay I did find additional information, including this site, which shows this sketch (click on it to…
My life is much too busy. I’m feeling quite out of kilter at the moment with that. My neck and shoulders are better. I saw the doctor, and am getting xrayed next week. I’m not too concerned about that. One more chiropractic on Monday, and I think I’ll be pretty much good to go. I…