Most of my blog posts so far have been about recycling and trying to live more sustainably, which is good, but I haven’t gotten to the heart of why I started this blog. I love nature with a passion I don’t have for much else and I really want to share that passion with others. …
One of my goals with this blog is to inspire more people to embrace the outdoors. But this season makes that more challenging: many people dread winter. Frigid weather, dark grey days with little sun, and heaven forbid – snow. While I absolutely love the snow, the winter months are my least favorite months. The …
As a young girl and teenager, I considered myself a staunch pessimist, as if it were a source of pride. Optimists were foolish, cheesy people who smiled too much. Annoying. But over the years I have come to regard my seemingly-instinctual tendency toward negativity as an undesirable mental state. Not only are overly negative people …
2021 Update – I started creating short videos about these flowers and posting them to YouTube. You can check them out by clicking the video below, or read on for more info! I had penned this post a few months ago in eager anticipation of April and May wildflower season — unfortunately some of the …
On New Years Eve, we were looking for a short hike to get some outside time in before ringing in the next decade. The Christmas holiday is wonderful to reconnect with family, but sometimes it can lead to social overload — I needed some nature R&R to recharge before getting back to the work grind. …
The most popular landscape images on social media invariably seem to have this “epic” factor – expansive mountain ranges, incredible desert formations, rich blue lakes, etc. Yet some of the most accessible places (especially on the east coast) aren’t the picturesque national parks, but the local parks and forests preserved as part of our public …
