outdoors Tag

I so get this guy!  That's me!!!  Running around in circles, backtracking, getting distracted, forgetting where I was going and what I was doing, having adventures along the way, "oh what's that over there???", hoping in the end I get what needs to be done...

Yesterday, shrugging off the annoyance of a winter cold that has taken away my voice, I got some fresh air on a drizzly morning walk along the water with a friend and her very handsome boy.He is so worried when his mom goes in to...

Isn't this magical?  Can't you imagine those top ones dancing away on their own?Dancing flakes are very, very close to my heart (she says as she cranks the tunes and gets up from her chair).Do you know what else makes me want to dance?  My...

Making this wreath gave me a chance to get out my little box of beach treasures and remember how it feels to be sitting on hot sand, popping a shell or pebble or little bit of sea glass into my bag.  All the sweeter holding them in...

This little tree on the left  -- really just an overachieving weed -- always irks me when I walk into my kitchen.  Over the summer it has grown up beside the house right outside the window.  (The filthiness of my window doesn't help the situation.)...

Actually there's one more I was working on, but it's at a stinker stage so I'll keep that one to myself for now!  This one is going to have some more work on it too but I like the liveliness in it.  Crows.  I like their sassy ways.All...

...I did it, I did it, I did it!I swam on Thanksgiving day.  October 8.  See proof:Way back in August I didn't think there was a chance.  Weather helped a lot.Consider the magnificent swimming season of Summer 2012 officially closed.I think....