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There and Back Again – An Adventure
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” ~G.K. Chesterton The past couple of weeks have been, to say the least, an adventure! Last Tuesday I bought plane tickets for my daughters and to fly to Louisiana for my grandmother’s funeral. We left on Thursday. Due to such short notice, the cheapest tickets…
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Family Time in Louisiana
I love living in the Northwest, but my roots are in the South. It has been 14 years since I have been to Louisiana, so in spite of the circumstances I am thoroughly enjoying my time here. I had forgotten (or maybe just didn’t appreciate before) how good the food is! We got here Friday morning and so far I…
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Camp Cooking
We like to cook over the open fire when we go camping. Here’s a sample of some of the meals we enjoyed on a recent camping trip. The first night we had hot-dogs. That’s usually our default first-night meal because there’s very little prep and clean-up!For breakfast we cooked bacon in the skillet (and then eggs in the same skillet…
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Another backwoods ruin…
A few weeks ago I posted about a falling-down log cabin we came across along a mountain back-road. Since then we went camping on Priest Lake in extreme northern Idaho (just 17 miles south of the Canadian border). As we were exploring the forest around the campground we came upon this beautiful fireplace. We could tell it had once been…
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Collecting Wildflowers
On our camping trip this past weekend, one of my favorite activities was watching for wildflowers to photograph. I was quite impressed with my knowledge of the flowers I discovered along our hike. For example, I recognized these little cuties as yellow violets!And I knew the trillium because some of my blog readers clued me in on it a week…
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Geocaching at Lake Pend Oreille
Geocaching has been one of our favorite summer weekend activities for several years. It’s fun to get out in the wilderness, it’s great exercise, and we often find that the caches are placed in just the perfect spot to enjoy a great view! That was case with the “Honey, I Think Saw the Paddler!” cache that we found a few…
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Mystery Flower
Does anybody know what kind of flower this is? It was blooming along the snowy road the day we got stuck in the snow. I thought it was absolutely beautiful… but I have no idea what it is. I was hopeful that maybe it was an edelweiss (you know, like from the Sound of Music?)… but I looked it up…
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A tumble-down log cabin…
On our drive in the mountains the other day, we passed this intriguing old building in a clearing by the side of the road. I just had to stop and take some pictures! Wanna explore it with me?I thought you did! C’mon! Let’s go a little closer!I wonder if the tree growing in the middle of it helps support the…
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Stuck in the snow in May…
It’s 84 degrees at my house today… our warmest day of the season so far. It was not, however, this warm in the mountains yesterday where we went for a Sunday afternoon drive! We knew there was still a little snow, so it was fun to take pictures of the melting snow along the road……and the merry little mountain streams…
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Mother’s Day Camp-out
Our first “real” camping trip of the season was for Mother’s Day weekend. My younger daughter asked me if that was my Mother’s Day present. I said, “Well, I guess so!” I hadn’t really thought about it… but it was interesting: later in the weekend I was reading about “love languages” and realized that my love language is “quality time.”…
