All posts for the month April, 2016

Return to Sterling: postscript

So fellow travelers, a few more thoughts rattling around my brain about the first hike of the season. I returned from my Spring Equinox hike feeling more peaceful than I had in weeks. As I said in my earlier post, I didn’t know what shifted, I just know something settled in my heart which eased […]

Easter Lace

So fellow travelers,  I miss Spring.  It was here not long ago. Pretty little periwinkles in my daylily bed. I regret to report they expired after snow and frost hit this week. and I found it not too terribly far away when I traveled to Philly to spend Easter Sunday with my family. Yellow explosions […]

Chasing Light

So fellow travelers, the light as I was driving into work a few days ago was incredible. Incredibly poetic and incredibly frustrating too. Driving past image after image I longed to capture, unable stop all I could do was take mental snapshots and make notes of shots to get on a future morning off, provided of course […]

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A most excellent post from Lisa Dingle. I hope I have managed to raise my daughters with a bit of this wisdom too.

Return to Sterling: Lakeside

So fellow travelers, if there is one lesson I have learned and taken to heart, it is this: When my soul is restless, when something is amiss, when my body, mind and spirit are out of sync there is only one reliable remedy I can take. I take a hike, or at the very least […]

Fortune Teller’s Bones

So fellow travelers, I used this imagery twice in recent posts so I took some time to listen closely until a haiku emerged. Cruel winds rattle leaves Hollow fortune telling bones Winter lingers long and now we return to the trail at Sterling …. Walk gently on the path my friends and may adventure find […]

Return to Sterling

So fellow travelers, a few weeks ago the Vernal Equinox dawned on a Sunday morning with a cold, unforgiving forecast. It would have been easy to hunker down in the warmth of my favorite reading chair and finish the compelling book I was reading about bees. Yet some persistent need sent me rummaging for my […]

Weather or not: The art of hiking from home

So fellow travelers, I woke this morning to howling winds and white out conditions. SOC shot of the view from my bedroom this morning blurry from blowing snow.   Looks like Ma Nature’s big April Fool’s joke this year was to send us snow in a bit more abundance than the “scattered snow showers,” originally […]

April Fools

So fellow travelers,  a few days of sudden warmth has all kinds of early spring surprises popping up. Just a few days ago there was still frost on the hardier garden herbs. Isn’t it about thyme for Spring?   My forsythia bush has not bloomed yet so I was almost startled to find little clusters of […]