Starved Rock, Day Two
They had a special winter promotion at the lodge, a reduced rate plus a $15 dollar coupon for breakfast for breakfast both mornings, so that was nice. We started our day with a delicious lodge dining room breakfast. It's good we had a hearty breakfast because we hiked all day, Ok, well, not all day,..we didn't actually start hiking until noon, and I'm not entirely sure why it took us so long to get going, but there you have it. We hiked for four hours, a total of five miles. Whew. We started at a different parking area than we'd ever been to and it took a coupe of times circling back on the...
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first video of florida
gee, that was fast! i shot this first video after we finally made it to our condo overlooking the ocean in Seagrove Beach, FL. we'd driven a long time that day; we left on friday feb. 22nd and after...
florida!
it was just so warm and sunny there and i wasn't thrilled about driving back to the cold and snow. but i'm getting ahead of myself...before florida, there was the beginning of february, with sweet...
Helping Hands of Springfield
My friend Erica is the Executive Director of the Helping Hands of Springfield, a homeless shelter. They are lucky to have her, because she's awesome at whatever she does, she cares, and she's making...
as february wraps up…
well, the month is almost gone. kind of a shitty month, in some regards. part-time-job-wise. but things are really looking up now and i have high hopes for good, creative things for myself. i feel...
february…
at least we're having a little break from the bitterly cold weather; last week was record-breaking cold temperatures and even though it's 58 degrees right now, the lake is still mostly frozen. but...
more winnie…
i feel like i haven't written anything about him for so long even though it's only been a few days i guess. i just found a few photos from 2006, when we still lived in westchester. here's Winnie...
more photos from that big snow…
whew. these were all taken right after it snowed, the week before winnie died. Saturday morning, Jan. 12th, Riley was determined to play in the snow even though it was piled mighty high. intrepid...
winnie winnie winnie
Winnie looks so regal here on the only new couch i've ever bought. This is before we got married and moved into Kevin's house in Westchester. April 3, 2005 Winnie and Honey on the swing on the old...
one more banner…
i felt the need to change the banner again, adding a different photo. i realized that since we got Winnie on Sept. 29, 2002, he surely couldn't have been more than a month old, so he must have been...