Whilst walking on a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the area of the Big Slackwater Restoration, many beautiful wildflowers were in bloom. This is in the area of Dam #4 to McMahons Mill where the C&O Canal enters the Potomac River to avoid the cost of removing enough cliff side stone to build the Read More
A Mother’s Day Gift
I got an amazing Mother's Day gift today. My daughter Alex, Arthur's big sister, sent me a beautiful message that she wrote herself talking about the ways that I had influenced her life and how she felt. It moved me to tears and made me feel proud of the way I had raised her. For all those Read More
A Tale of a Bowling Ball Gone Feral
If you have managed to read this far in these electronic scribblings, you probably have a grasp of the sense of humor that Arthur and I shared, often irreverent, quite imaginative, and usually going on for far too long. Sometimes these ideas and stories would go on for months, one of our epics was Read More
The Box Turtle Walk
Since I need to train to get in shape to do the entire C&O Canal in five or six months I have been walking with a full pack, at about thirty-five pounds, as much and as far as possible. I’m also using this as an opportunity to practice and learn how I want the photography for the book to appear. Read More