Feb 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
i got up at six, i don’t know why – maybe my body is anticipating daylight savings time, which starts in a couple week, or when we move the clocks ahead when we go to florida in three short days! mom’s celebration was a success and i’m pretty...
Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
even though i know she won’t read this because she doesn’t feel like opening her computer. but i’m sitting here at 3:55 in the morning; i woke up about 2:30 and i can’t believe it’s almost four. the cats were eating then fighting, so i...
Feb 25, 2016 | Wales 2015
This video starts after our encounter with the wild horses. another glorious day of hiking the Pembrokeshie Coast Path!
Feb 17, 2016 | Wales 2015
it was a leisurely day, with only six miles to cover. here’s what the trail looked like behind us, after we’d had our encounter with the wild ponies. we saw this funny guy when we were almost to st. david’s. the beach is down the road from St....
Feb 16, 2016 | Wales 2015
this was our final official hiking day – six short miles from solva to st. david’s. here’s the first part of our hike – we ran into some wild ponies, and i videotaped them, and so the video is at the very end of this post. first, breakfast...
Feb 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
i hope your day was filled with chocolate and love. not necessarily in that order… mmm, chocolate. here are a few photos from the first part of february. february first, when there was no snow on the ground at all, a lovely day. today is a different story...
Feb 13, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s the video – it includes a guy parasailing, somebody wind surfing , and some wild ponies! a beautiful, sunny day in the south of Wales. ok then, g.h.
Feb 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
and WHEW, the month roars by as usual, and spring is right around the corner! except right now it’s only 18 outside. luckily i don’t have to step one foot outside the door today. so…NYC, a great time, we did so much, saw a couple of shows, had some...
Feb 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
so, spring is right around the corner…my personal goal is to try t get all my photos and videos of our trip LAST AUGUST up before it has been a year. possible? maybe. i’m doing my best, but life seems to be getting in the way quite a bit, not so much...
Jan 28, 2016 | Wales 2015
we were a little tired after our hike across the sands at newgale sands, and the path ahead of us went up, up, up. when we got to the top, the view was, of course, beautful. and then down, on the conveniently-placed stone steps. what if it’d been raining? i...
Jan 23, 2016 | Wales 2015
that last set of photos took us from a little before seven in the morning up to…about 10:30. yes, picture-taking took up a big portion of our hike. here’s the next three hours, all the way up to lunchtime. this was a lotta steps to climb. another...
Jan 22, 2016 | Wales 2015
that’s a lotta miles! well, not so many for experienced hikers, but a lot for us. we woke up early on saturday morning, before 7 a.m., and it was another beautiful day. here’s the view from our window. breakfast was fresh everything, so delicious....
Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
four and a half inches last night. i’m trying not to think about it, because i don’t have to leave the house til after nine. hopefully the roads will be fine and dandy by then. kevin is out snowblowing. a very good fella. meanwhile…this is just a...
Jan 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
last friday, january 8th, jim’s picture was in the paper on the front page of the city/state section, above the fold! it was a great photo, and jim said the photographer, Dave Spencer, followed him and his buddies around seven holes as they played disc golf....
Jan 15, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s a video of our second day of hiking. watching the video just now, i saw how close i was able to zoom in on the baby seal way down on the rocks, as he made his way out to the water. there’s also some pretty good footage of a guy parasailing; once...
Jan 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
although it’s so dark outside still that it’s not the most cheerful of days… but so far the winter hasn’t been so terrible. almost no snow, and only a few bitterly cold days. it was fairly warm on monday, and i went down to the dock where the...
Jan 14, 2016 | Wales 2015
we arrived at Little Haven at around three in the afternoon, and were pretty sure we knew where our b&b was, but once we actually got into town we couldn’t quite find it. so we wandered around a bit, finally climbing a steep hill to arrive at the Pendyffryn...
Jan 13, 2016 | Wales 2015
my first set of photos of this second day of hiking only got us one and a half hours into our days’ hike – here are the next bits along the way. here we are, about a half hour past the castle. it’s funny how the castle already looks soooo far away....
Jan 10, 2016 | Wales 2015
This was our second full day of walking, nine miles, from Marloes to Little Haven. because we’d only walked about five miles our first day, and it took such a very long time, i was a little nervous about making it nine miles on this second day. how will i ever...
