POST 29/2025 GENEVA INDIANA: Limberlost. Loblolly. Gene Stratton-Porter. We were driving from our Bed No Breakfast lodging in Berne enroute to a Poetry Workshop at Loblolly Marsh and got slightly lost to-ing and fro-ing around a detour on gravel roads to Loblolly, part of the Limberlost Conservation Area Nature Preserves. Our niece Shari Wagner led …
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Destinations: Ontario, Michigan, Indiana
POS 26/2025 TAWAS CITY, MICHIGAN: We're spending a few days along Lake Huron in Tawas City after. visiting family and friends in southwestern Ontario. More family reunion time awaits this weekend at home in Indiana. Time spent with family and friends nourishes what experts might call "relationship health." Ontario With family and friends we shared …
A walk in the woods
Post 19/2025 River Preserve County Park, Elkhart County: We walked in the part of this park that starts in the village of Benton. The linear park of 358 acres follows the Elkhart River, adjacent canal and spillways. I wore my new pair of boots. Did my feet proud. The park includes historic canals, dams and …
Cheerfully afoot in Cornwall
Post 5/2025. Carbis Bay, Cornwall UK. Windy. Muddy. Overcast. More rain than needed. Who's complaining? Not me. We arrived on schedule and have had a warm welcome. Marilyn and Steve had us over for morning coffee. On Sunday we attended St Anta & All Saints church. On Wednesday Lynne kindly took us along to do …
Moon, summer’s close, Cornwall, friendship
Post 38/2024. Goshen, Indiana. THE HARVEST MOON glowed softly as I peered at it from our driveway and snapped it handheld. Of late I've been testing my old, assumed no longer functional, point and shoot pocket camera, a Nikon Coolpix S7000. I retired the camera some years ago because of cloudy (moisture?) spots on the …
No mow May
Post 18/2024 Carbis Bay Cornwall UK. Greening. Blossoming. Sprouting. The natural world is bursting its bounds in spring. The scent of new-mown grass meets us on our walks. Some advocates, though, suggest that in May one should pause mowing. Give bees and butterflies and others a change to flourish. Give place to pollinators and nesting …
Geologists be praised
Post 17/2024 Carbis Bay Cornwall UK. By definition geology is one of the Earth sciences that looks "at how the earth is formed, its structure and composition, and the types of processes acting on it." Geology can also be applied to any planet or extraterrestrial body. Take your pick of various Earth sciences: historical geology, …
Journeys to Easter
Post 13/2024 Cornwall UK. Christian churches this week observed Holy Week and on Sunday celebrate Jesus' resurrection. On Maundy Thursday we attended an ecumenical worship service at Fore Street Methodist Church in St Ives, the service presented by students and staff from Cliff College in Derbyshire. The students that day had just completed a 48-mile …
Rain reigns, right now
Post 9/2024/Cornwall, England. If I didn't know that rain is water falling in drops from the clouds then I could be susceptible to a conspiracy theory that the recent ever-present clouds with peeks of sun are the result of somebody throwing a wet blanket over normal goings on. Ha. I'm not aware of any such …
A week on: sunny spells, showers, flowers
Post 8/2024/Cornwall/UK. Showers, heavy rain, spots of sun, brief hail, and brisk winds kept us homebound on Thursday. One good result of all the rain is that Cornwall's reservoirs are at full or near full capacity. That's dramatically different from last year's hosepipe ban (February 2023 driest in 20 some years; 2024 so far wettest …
It's About Now 