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Wild: A book review in four words
I’ve been cranking along with my New Year’s Resolution to read five memoirs or biographies this year. I started with Swimming To Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox, then...
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When nature is allowed to be nature
“Oh my God, a lady’s slipper!” I pulled the camera out of my pack as I raced to the side of the road. I crouched down and snapped pictures as our nine year old son giggled. “I guess Mom likes lady...
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Views from the top of Virginia
The town was “between mountains so steep and irrational, they must have blocked most of the sun most of the day.” – Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain I know exactly the types of places...
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Thoughts from an emerald forest
I can never capture on film the beauty of light in a forest, shining through the canopy onto a single fern, a pebble, a droplet falling through air from a waterfall. I like to tell myself it’s not...
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Nature as ice sculptor
One of my favorite things about winter in the Appalachians is the juxtaposition of green against white. Whether moss, lichen, rhododendron, or fern, there is something hopeful about green vegetation...
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A journalist I am not (R)
Portraiture is possibly my favorite form of photography. Faces show character in every laugh line, every weathered wrinkle, in tan lines left by always-worn sunglasses, in the trickle of sweat through...
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I was going to run a 5K
Rocks and flowers, Park City, UT I’m in Park City, Utah for the annual Automattic Grand Meetup, and I had originally signed up to run the WordPress 5K this morning. After all the wine I drank last...
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Warm winter hike
We were occupied with sports and travel every weekend this autumn, and as a result, did not go on a single camping trip during the most beautiful season in Appalachia. So when it was warm and sunny on...
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Running away to the woods
I hiked alone yesterday. I needed to get out of the house. Beech tree in winter Actually, I needed to get away from our kids. They’ve been home for what seems like weeks now (13.5 days, to be exact),...
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Warm winter hike
Red berryThis year for Christmas, we got rain instead of snow. This is our fourth winter here in Blacksburg, and we’re still holding out for a white Christmas. Rushing (not-frozen) December...
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