This past weekend, Rochelle and I went on what's becoming a usual hike in the wilderness beyond Abram's Creek. We found a nice private area beyond the campground in which we had to hike down part of the mountain to get to a beautiful creek pool. It was green at the bottom of the creek bed in some parts of the pool! I took loads of pictures again and Rochelle does such a great job posing for me. I think she loves to get in the eye of my camera or camcorder. I would love to come back there to swim in the warmer weather! It was almost warm enough for me to swim.
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This week when I visited my sit spot I met a group of birds including a friendly woodpecker that hopped about a branch near me. I was able to get a video of it hopping about eating bugs. I was amazed to be so close. I walked about my sit spot area and found the two large puffballs...dead and past their season. But now the spores will be dispersed about the yard and more puffballs will emerge perhaps after the next big rain. I have to admit that my sit spot is less than I'd desire it to be, but nevertheless, I am thankful to have a small patch of woods to conveniently connect with nature from home. My most favorite place to connect with nature is at Abrams Creek Campground up the road three miles. If I can't make peace with my current backyard sit spot, I'm seriously considering making my sit spot at Abram's Creek, since I get there on average once per week and that's about how often I can get to my sit spot right now. So, we'll see how things go at home first. It is really best to have a convenient sit spot that's a short easy walk right into one's backyard and that's why I don't want to give up just yet.
Speaking of Abram's Creek, I'm going to add my latest adventure there to this blog. Rochelle and I went twice over the weekend and I took loads of photographs and videos again. It's the one place I can go to around here without fear of stepping on a cranky neighbor's private property. I can go for miles and be in the wilderness. I just love this place and I feel at home away from home! This week I had the opportunity to really take a nice long break from my busy life and get out into nature! This was so very therapeutic as it had been months since I have been able to really unwind and just relax in the great outdoors without feeling like I had to rush off and do something for my business, community or whatever!
Rochelle and I took another very nice long two hour hike through Abram's creek looking for mushrooms. Now, the dog couldn't care less about mushrooms and a number of times (as you'll see from my video) almost stepped on some. But, nevertheless, it was great to have her off her leash romping about getting fresh air and exercise. This time I found some really fun and colorful looking mushrooms. It was slightly cloudy out land the earth was yet moist, so I was able to get some nice photographs of them. Two week's ago, my dog Rochelle and I moved up to the Mountains of West Virginia. I'm now helping to fix up a motel and am managing the current construction as well as will be managing the motel once we're open for business.
One of my challenges when I moved here was to find a backyard sit spot. Now our backyard had previously been a junkyard. But thanks to our wonderful motel clean up crew, the backyard is at least tolerable without most of the junk and garbage. I'm not sure what the previous folks owned this business were thinking to let garbage accumulate around the beautiful green space. There is still lots of clean up to do around the wooded backyard area, but I am able to at least walk around the outskirts of some woods in the backyard. My sit spot is located several yards from our small yellow cottage behind the motel. I've chosen a spot that's has a few rocks for sitting on and a nice lookout into the forest. I'm not sure where property lines are so, I tried hard to stay as close to what I know is our property. I would much prefer being in the woods though. I will have to investigate and ask Michael, the owner of the motel, where our land ends so I can at least walk through the woods if part of it belongs to the motel. It's been raining a lot here lately and I found three giant puffballs which I've included photographs for below. On my first day's sit spot experience, there was a mother white-tailed deer and her fawn watching me. They ran from me at first, but then when I sat still for a while they approached and stood and stared at me for about ten minutes. I took videos of them watching me. I will aim to go to this spot a few times a week and try to fit it in my morning walking routine. |
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