Thank you very much, @jotakrevs and @curangel. The support and acknowledgement are greatly appreciated.

I really wish she would join a hiking group, but she likes to get in touch with nature when she hikes. People might be a distraction. I'll have to check out your post to get a report on that:)

Isn't he the most delightful dog? My daughter adopted him as a rescue about two years ago. Here he is in the kennel, asking to be adopted. Who could turn that face down? He is her travel pal now. Too big

My daughter is very generous.She always shares her trips with me by sending me photos.This area is very similar to the area I grew up in. Forested mountain terrain. When I was a child we didn't call it

Since February of 2018.

This is lovely, @jalal0410. Thank you for reading the rules and following them. It's refreshing when someone joins the community and has made the effort to be appropriate.

My granddaughter had a ticket for a trip, direct flight from NY JFK to Nashville Tn. Her morning flight was cancelled. The afternoon flight, 1118, was no longer direct. She had to connect in Boston. Flt

I just am cautious about going on about how good we had it, because that's unfair on the young folk. My nephew grimaces at that, and I get it. I don't think I ever go on about how good things were. Anyway,

One trip on an airplane should be enough to stop anyone from taking an airplane ever again We stopped flying years ago. I swore the only way I'd fly is if I could go on a private jet. And that's not happening.

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I'm always going to want to beat dog shit unpickerupperers with a piece of driftwood I think that's perfectly reasonable. I mind my own business, generally. I don't really care if my neighbor is fastidious

Is it Ok to nominate someone else? (I'm doing OK myself 😇--don't need encouragement). Someone commented intelligently on one of my posts yesterday. Brand new, seems eager and intelligent. I delegated

For me the dominant affect of this poem is mood. I think you capture a mood of being between, of going forward and remembering--vaguely. The past is always a part of us, and yet it fades, becomes at times

it has always worked out Maybe I just remember it that way :))

Thank you! I was also surprised to find that swan species was invasive. I did notice that in the pictures no other birds were nearby. Usually, when we go to that beach, we'll see geese, ducks and seagulls

I don't know what to think about this challenge. I never pretended to be someone I wasn't. I never strove to improve for someone else. But for most of my life it seems I have defied expectations and have

it's getting to do what you love. Yes. The secret to a happy life🌟 (I just upvoted my own comment!)

Thank you! I went through a book writing phase. Self-published my first book in 2011 and my last in 2017. It was as though I had a fever :) It started with a book about my experience with an illness that

Nobody wants to be old, but sometimes it's very helpful to have lived history. I don't recognize the world I live in now. When I was a child in rural New York, one phrase everyone respected was, "It's

I think part of the problem is, to the uninitiated, they are all swans. Trumpeter, tundra, mute. Ecologists make distinctions based on small differences between species. That's what it seems like to us,