Our Last Full Day in Florida
Whew, finally nearing the story of of our Florida trip, and now it's already April...anyway, there were many things I wanted to do on this last day, but didn't have time for all of them. It was kind of cool but sunny on this January Tuesday morning. First, we drove out to the Myakka State Forest. . I had done a cursory search of it, but I didn't do such a great job - I was hoping to walk along a path by some water, but when we got there it was just a path surrounded by the scrub bushes that are so prevalent in Florida. It was funny to me that they called it a state forest. Mom and I started...
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good grief.
It's the beginning of the middle of December, really? Already? At least i've updated my banner. Here's the loveliest picture I feel i've taken in a long while. December 2nd, when the clouds were...
Biking the Sangamon Valley Trail, Part 2
Kevin and I went on a great bike ride on the Sangamon Valley Trail on Sept. 16th, our 14th anniversary. It's a lovely, flat path, and 23 miles round-trip. We decided to hit the trail again on...
the beautiful trees
I'm pretty sure that every year i post photos of the dazzling red trees over by the university. but that's not going to stop me from doing it again. here they are on October 25th. Here are a couple...
wrapping up October
Friday October 30th, mom and i walked at Lincoln Memorial Gardens and it was mighty chilly and windy, but the trees were beautiful. We'd put on our masks whenever people passed by but they were...
the last warm day of the year…
kevin and i have been doing all kinds of projects outside because indian summer is coming to an end later in the day. it's been in the 70s and i've gone running for the the past couple of mornings...
running and painting near the end of October
first of all, Kevin replaced the second bearing on his truck yesterday. the first replacement took a day and a half and the second only four hours. soon he'll be replacing the mysterious bearings...
more happenings in October
the white pelicans are back and as usual i keep trying to get a good close-up. this one on october 16th wasn't too bad. the problem is that when i walk down to the water they start to quietly glide...
Mostly Riley in October
First, to clarify - my last post had a photo of Kevin on the sailboat wearing a lovely lavender t-shirt from bev and wrote that she got it for bowling. yesterday she informed me that she'd bought a...
ricocheting from one thing to the next…
i can't say why i've been so productive lately. On Friday it was, indeed, really warm outside and I dug up most of my gerbera daisies but when i was done putting them in pots i realized i'd missed a...