by thadmin | Mar 16, 2014 | Beauty, Joy, Travel
Here are some photos shot the day before yesterday. While it certainly doesn’t look like it, these images were taken during Cyclone Lucy, down at Piha beach about an hour’s drive from...
by thadmin | Mar 13, 2014 | Beauty, Navel, Rant, Travel
So I have returned to New Zealand. To be honest, I never thought I would ever return. Certainly not through lack of desire, but rather lack of means was my assumption. But I must never forget the generosity of family, and so it is through the good graces of my...
by thadmin | Aug 30, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
I decided to cut things short the day before yesterday. I asked my uncle in Montreal if I might stop by for a night on my way home and he graciously agreed. He and Marilyn are such great people. I love them dearly and cannot think of any family with whom I’d...
by thadmin | Aug 28, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
…this post should be called Adirondacks – Day three, but as I am no longer in the Adirondacks, it seems odd to refer to today by that nomenclature. I certainly did wake up in the Adirondack mountains this morning. But I am currently in Montpelier, Vermont,...
by thadmin | Aug 28, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
Wellll, day two was yesterday. But as I did not end up in a place for the night that had WiFi, I had to leave my post until today. I camped at Eagle Point State Park and had a lovely view of….some lake. But it rained a lot in the afternoon and through the evening....
by thadmin | Aug 26, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
Its just noon now, and I’ve returned from a lovely few hours riding through fire roads and snowmobile trails in the forest above Old Forge. There was no one else about and it was so quiet and peaceful. All I could hear was the thrush, thrush, thrush of my...