Not feeling much like writing today but I will anyway. Here’s my car and bike. I just like looking at them both. Little things make me happy. This was a first for me. A water crossing! It was about 4″ deep which was enough to make me feel unstable. Falling would have been messy for […]
The idea was to bike from Smithfield Beach to Dingman’s Campground on the Mc Dade Trail. The trail runs along the west side if the Delaware River from just above the Water Gap north to Milford, PA. That was the plan. Well…I was clearly thinking with my 18 year old brain. My 65 year old […]
I went out on the Delaware and Raritan Canal towpath today. It was my firts real cycling since Lyme Disease and Thyroid Cancer hit me starting 15 months ago! The heat was oppressive but the ride was magic. Just to be rythmically pedaling again and covering ground is such a rush for me. I love […]
I stopped numbering my hikes at 13. I don’t know why. I’m going to count them up and get back to my numbering system. This blog started out as my hiking journal and I let it slide all sorts of directions. Maybe the thyroid cancer was the culbrit. I will hike tomorrow and count up […]
I have fished forever. I still fish in the stream my dad took me too 60 years ago. Today, after the previous post, I felt really tired. I think I bored myself…anyway, I decided to go to my default activity, fishing. It was really hot. I just wanted my feet in the cool water. Then […]
Ever since I can remember I have seen things. Not just looked at them. I didn’t know that seeing was something that not everyone did. I think maybe it’s wonder. Such a great word wonder is. Some years ago I put on my wonder jacket and I haven’t taken it off since. It’s a process […]
My grandfather planted or transplanted maybe, these Mountain Laurel bushes around our cabin in the Pocono Mountains. I think of my Pop Pop every time they bloom. It reminds me of how much he loved it here. There is an old photo somewhere of him and Nana sitting on the steps here in front of […]
Seems I wake up at this time often. I did another 5 miler with another pair of friends yesterday. These were not AA buddies, but great old friends from HS. We are all three 65. John’s 11 year old Poodle joined us. What a lovely trooper he was. “Bo.” I drank them both out of […]
Found this today. If you don’t, you should all know about the Semi-Colon project: Today I went to a tattoo artist, and for $60 I let a man with a giant Jesus-tattoo on his head ink a semi-colon onto my wrist where it will stay until the day I die. By now, enough people have […]
My grandfather, using leftover house paint, did this one of Camp Chalfont sometime in the 1950s. He wanted us to remember that a room was added to the back, so he painted it sticking out the side! My mother used to say that I was a bit like him. What a great compliment. The lake […]
Gray In The Woods 