Late Summer Meadow Walk

I had a Friday off and took my lunch up to a favorite Happy Heart spot.  It could have been a sunnier day but the color that was out there was still amazing.  It is a steep climb up to this plateau and then there are benches and picnic tables to have a meal at.   I did both some reading and some knitting while hanging out there.

Taughannock Falls Trumansburg NY

See the people, where they should not be . . . .On the ledge . . . .at the very top 215 feet vertical fall

Taughancock  Falls

 Martha and Erik

Native Bee Balm

Goosefoot Maple seed chains

  So once a summer my husbands family converges on a State Park in the Southern Tier - often at the base of Cayuga Lake or Seneca Lake.  We like Cayuga Lake even if it is farther because they have Purity Ice Cream in Ithaca and we like to go there for an Ice Cream afterward,  For me this year it was Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream and I have yummy pictures but they are on my phone and not available right now to my blog . . .  We have been attending this reunion for 28 years and it is interesting to see those that were young back in the day now have young of their own and so the circle continues.  Where will your summer travels take you?

Wild FBloodroot in the Sun!lower walk spring 2016- Auburn TrailSkunk

Bloodroot

Trout Lily

Blood root in the sun !

Black Cohash

Skunk Cabbage

May Apple / Umbrella Plant

White Violets

Nothing beats a walk in the woods in teh springtime and this year we have had a cool spring so the wild flowers are lasting longer.  Granted I am walking with hat and gloves on as this AM it was 36 F when we headed out.  I went on a different walk this AM with different flowers and will have to post that soon.  We were the only ones in the park this AM and there was lots of bird activity. A little su and it would be just perfect.

Mothers Day 2016

"Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do."

~ Shonda Rhimes

January Winter

January is such a silent month.  Quite often the earth is blanketed in snow.  This always sets us for a  a cushion of calm.  The hustle and bustle of the Holidays is over and with snow and cold it is the perfect month to snuggle inside.  Yet with any opportunity I can get, I love to venture outside.  There is beauty to behold in the stillness, the barren.  Lots of tracks from those that carry on day to day.  One day I went for a walk on a trail I go on often but it was early in the morning about 15 degree F and the only others that had been out were the Coyotes.  It was fascinating following their tracks and imagining what they were up to . So stay in or go out but enjoy January- it is a fleeting.

Weekend Wanderings October 2015

These are from last weekend 10- 17/18-2015  but it has been a busy week so I did not get hem posted sooner. Hoping to go somewhere different this weekend.  Lots of life and color still out there. It was quite cold last weekend- snow in the air and lot's of Bird activity!!  There is nothing better than getting outside- so centering and inspirational.

The Field . . . .

Those who contemplate the beauty

of the earth find reserves of strength

that will endure as long as life lasts.

There is something infinitely healing in the

repeated refrains of nature  - the assurance

that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

~ Rachel Carson