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Good day!

I’m reading a book, an actual book with pages. It’s a nice feeling knowing that I’m reading it alone, that there isn’t someone else on the other end of a connection monitoring my progress.

The trail is calling, and so I must go. Who knows where I’ll end up.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

The view is through evergreens, a vast slope of golden grass on the other side, and a wide valley visible beyond that. In the distance, the clouds dance around mountains, the sky gray.

Perkiomen Creek, PA

I was too busy to go out… but somehow still made it to take a walk along a winter creek last weekend😉

#FlyFishing #Fishing #GetOutside #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Snow #Photography

A broad creek flows between wooded areas under a clear blue sky. Thick ice and snow cover most of its surface, while the center remains capped with thinner, glassy ice that lets the dark water show through.

Great afternoon for a beach walk! Still 60° at 5PM.

#GetOutside #Hiking #ClamBeach #DogsOfMastodon

Boy and his happy dog reflected in the wet sand

Trinidad Head from Clam Beach with waves in the foreground and blue sky above

#Today 03

Good day!

*Hard to believe we had this much snow a couple of weeks ago.

So, there’s soup in the refrigerator. There’s also soup occupying over half of my freezer.

I had some last night and it lived up to the hype. Alas, you should’ve been there, but you weren’t.

Be everwell.

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In the foreground, a trail crosses the image that’s packed with snow. Behind it, a fallen tree in the mixed forest lies in parallel. Through the trees is a mountain covered with snow. The sky is partly cloudy.

Well since it's #MountainMonday here is a panorama of Mt Rainier, Washington state. Seen here from Grand Park meadow on the North side of the National Park. Early November 2025.
#PNW #mountains #getoutside

A very wide panoramic view of a winter landscape. Dominating the horizon in the center is a massive e conical volcano covered in glaciers and snow. On the left nearby is a stand of stunted high elevation conifers with more trailing into the distance to the right. The whole foreground is flat white snow. The sky above is blue with some puffy clouds but the winter sun hasn't yet peeked over the trees on the left.

Diamonds from the Sky: Frost and Sun

https://spectra.video/w/h4HUjAYQDXbF3HBwu7ZX8d

#Today 02

Good day!

I’m drawing closer to a hike. I have my sights set on Wednesday.

I’ve had to break up multiple tasks to enable steady writing progress. One will fill my freezer with soup, for instance.

Wednesday…mind and body are more than ready to return to the trail.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A wide creek meanders through the forest in winter where evergreens add splashes of green. Higher, a mountain’s slopes are dusted with snow. The sky is cloudy.

Today's 2-mile walk on a warm and sunny day was enlivened by this bald eagle chasing a red-tailed hawk, then perching in this tree near the airport to survey his territory!

#GetOutside #Hiking #HammondTrail

Bald eagle perched on a branch against a bright blue sky.

Three miles on Janes Creek yesterday. Still too muddy to do the upper loop, but the skunk cabbage are blooming!

#GetOutside #Hiking #DogsOfMastodon #JanesCreek

Skunk cabbage with yellow bloom in Janes Creek.

Boy and his dog waiting for me on a bridge with large trees and ferns in the background.

#Today 01

Just simply…

Be everwell.

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A vast hillside of golden grass with scattered pines descends towards a broad valley where a river flows. Across the valley, silhouetted peaks with snow capped summits reach towards and through the clouds.

On Friday, last day of our vacation, I felt the urge to test myself with another trailrun...well maybe "run" is a bit stretched for some parts. After 4 kilometres I had to give up on my planned route and turned around as snow got deeper and deeper up the mountain and my socks and shoes were completely soaked. Nevertheless it was a great experience all alone in the woods and snow.

#Trailrunning #Trails #Running #Laufen #RunnersOfMastodon #Rausgeschafft #Outdoors #GetOutside #Sunlight #SunlightThroughTrees #Nature #ScenicsNature #Nature #Autumn #Winter #WinterVibes #Snow #Allgäu #Alpen #Alps #Bayern #Bavaria

A snow-covered forest road leads into the woods. Orange sunlight shines through the green-white trees from the right on a cold afternoon.

A bright blue sky with few clouds above. Lots of deep snow down below and a sole barn in front of the trees. Only my footprints in the deep snow indicate where I came from.

Five minutes after I took this picture I had to turn around because the snow started to reach my knees (and I wore shorts).

#Today 31

Good day!

We seem to be living in a time when days are gone in a flash, but the actual experience, the entire month, seemingly took a year.

Thus, when I walk in nature, it isn’t pleasant, it’s more like life support.

Is life real anymore? The trees think it is.

Be everwell.

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A simple picture of a trail where the grass is golden and the surrounding pines are green beneath a gray sky in winter.

⛸🔥🦊 **From wild Arctic foxes roaming North Slope towns to skating with the Seawolves in Anchorage, plus icy roads and winter warnings in between—**Alaska’s frozen frontiers are alive. Don’t miss a beat 👉 https://tinyurl.com/djkz4ntx
#WinterOnIce #NorthSlope #AlaskaAdventure #Seawolves #GetOutside #arcticfox #rabies #KuskokwimIceRoad #RecklessDriving #GlennHighway #News #AKnews

#FlyFishingFriday

Karakung (Cobbs Creek), PA

It’s been unfishable, and it will be unfishable for a while 🤔
But I will still walk along the creek 😊

#FlyFishing #Fishing #GetOutside #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Snow #Photography

A creek flows through the snow-covered valley in the winter woods. Its rocky terrain is hidden beneath the snow, and the surface is frozen everywhere except in the middle, where the current flows faster.

#Today 30

Good day!

*The start of the old forest road on Blue Mountain.

For the first time in months, it didn’t drop below freezing last night (actually, it’s still technically night).

For the foreseeable future, we’re going to have late March weather.

Be everwell.

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A broad path bordering on being a road climbs across a broad field of frosted brown grass and enters an evergreen forest, some of the trees, like the closest one, laden with pine cones. The sky is a bright gray.

I visit the ruins of 12th century Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire, England. I look around and talk a little bit about the place.

https://youtu.be/SmbTnXjS_JQ

#history #shropshire #england #english #englishhistory #video #getoutside #getoutdoors #abbey #ghosts #haunted #albion #youtube #explore

The thumbnail for my video from Haughmond Abbey.

One of the charming small towns found all over the Texas Hill Country, Marble Falls has good eats and plenty to do. Here's a one day itinerary, in my latest for the Perceptive Travel Blog:

https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2026/01/28/texas-hill-country-marble-falls/

#travel #RoadTrip #GetOutside #EatLocal #ShopSmall #Texas