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January: Winter Snippets
Well, winter is slowly heading into spring, and it feels like we haven’t done much of anything around here. No camping weekends, no fun little trips, playing it close to home for the most part, and my itch to get out there and see the world is still needing to be scratched. However, looking at…
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Buescher State Park: Patterns of Place and People
It was the first Saturday morning of the year, and I was sitting on a small mound of dirt, just to the right of a tree root. I was watching the water slowly lap at the edge of the lake, and contemplating what it really meant to know a place. I wondered if the park…
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2015: To Sum, and What’s to Come
Last Christmas, my mom gave me this journal in the above photo, and it turned out to be my favorite item of the entire year. I carried that with me during all my outdoor adventures and checked off all the birds I saw during the year on the master list in the back, as well…
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W.G. Jones: Sweetleaf Nature Trail
We’ve had quite a few walks in the woods this year, but all seemed to have a sub-text to them. We’re walking in the woods with a group from Hike It Baby, or like the weekend before, with a Meet Up group composed of people with similar interests. We were there to walk, but also…