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Rooted

Oh my, I have been a bad baaad blogger, something that was brought to my attention during a wonderful conversation with my older and very pregnant sister. So I slid into my…

Sunday Morning Ramblings

I’m sitting here at my kitchen table overlooking the backyard, the blinding morning light is streaming through the window highlighting the clutter around me. A pile of pebbles sit beside me on…

Sequoia & Kings Canyon

I take pleasure in the sound of our feet grazing over loose gravel, the crunch of dry leaves under our shoe tread, the pitter-patter Bella’s paws on the trail beside us. I…

Spring is Sprouting

 For the past month I’ve been teaching gardening lessons at the local elementary school and helping 2nd, 3rd and 5th grades start their first school garden. We’ve been seed starting and did…

Youth Garden

The kiddos filed into the wellness home with their blingy backpacks to a lesson of wildflower planting and no-bake energy bite makin’! They scream at the sight of horse poop (which always…

Death Valley

  Oh how nice it is to escape the city! And have a weekend to catch my breath and tell you about it!  We’ve now been in California for 3 months and…

Angst

Angst (ɑŋkst) n. a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish. These photos were taken worlds and years apart, however the emotion is one in the same.  (Left) Early one sticky morning in…

Hello California!

This Sunday morning as I sunk into the comfy Panera Bread chairs with my hot cup of coffee and breakfast nibbles, I realized that two weeks have literally flown by. In two…

Chiang Mai, Thailand

3 months, 3 countries, 8 different Rustic Pathways programs, shooting over 138 gigs of photos, taking care of high school kiddies 7 days a week, 24 hours a day…fixing sniffily noses, sore…

Cambodia

I’m sitting here in one of my favorite Chiang Mai coffee shops editing a couple million images from the SE Asian Rustic Pathways (RP) photography crew and drinking a strong cup of…