Gray Clouds Moving In ~ Daily Photo 10-3-12

Maple Tree Leaves about Gone ~ Daily Photo ~ 10-2-12

I took this picture as I was leaving for school this morning.  In just a week, my big old maple is about out of leaves because they are all here on the ground thanks to the wind and the rains. They are so colorful and pretty. It was so damp and chilly last night, I actually turned up the gas heaters for a bit. Boy, did that warmth feel good. 

Daily Photo ~ 9-27-12 ~ Lot by Field of Dreams

It was a very foggy morning on my way to school. I pulled off to take some pictures of the field I call "My Field of Dreams," but I really couldn't see it. This lot is where VDOT keeps some of its equipment they use for winter road work out our way.

This type traveling weather is coming the rule of each day. Lots of fog.

Fog ~ Daily Photo ~ 9-23-12

Typical Morning Drive to Work

I am so exited to have found a new editing program online which is free. If you are used to using PSE, it is very similar and very easy to use. 
The name is "iPiccy."

Nanalou's Rose ~ 9-22-12 ~ Daily Photo

This post is linked with:
 Floral Friday Fotos
Your Sunday Best

Chillin' by the Creek ~ 9-21-12 ~ Daily Photo

Bud's Boots Were Made for Hikin'

Fall is Just around the Corner ~ 9-20-12 ~ Daily Photo

September 19, 2012 ~ Late Afternoon

Fall is 2 days away. The leaves are falling which means it is raking time again.

The Runner Wears Pink ~ Daily Photo ~ 9-19-12

Out came the little children running.

All the little boys and girls,

With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,

And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls,

Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after

The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.

~Robert Browning

Market~Music~Mural

 Near Sequim, WA

 Poulsbo, WA

 Poulsbo, WA

This post is linked with 
Lesley's Signs, Signs and SOOC Sunday.

Daily Photo ~ 9-12-12

A Bit of the City in the Country

Look on the right, and you will see part of a pond 

the owners dug out this summer. 

The Final Chapter of a Life as I Know It ~ 9-11~012

 MY WORLD SINCE AGE 20
SCHOOL TEACHER

Our Last Year Together

Rockbridge Middle School Is Closing 6-2013

Where we will all go no one knows!

Left to Right: 

Joanna~ Librarian and Daughter of a Minister

Megan, English 7 Teacher and a Minister's Wife

Genie (moi)...Matriarch of the School at 73

Gretchen ~ Science 7 Teacher ~ I taught her back in sixth grade.

Rita ~ Guidance Counsellor and Daughter of a Minister

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." ~ John Cotton Dana
"A teacher afects eternity; he can never tell when his influence stops." ~ Horace Mann
"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own images." ~ Unknown

This post is linked with:
Our World Tuesday
 Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesdays

Beauty Is All Around Us If We Will Just Look ~ 9-10-12

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

~William Shakespeare

This post is linked with Wordless Wednesday.

Summer Memories ~ 9-8-12

Camp Maxwelton Farewell ~ 2012

Now, Just a Memory

My grandson, Henry, is the last boy on the right. 

""A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
~ Edward de Bono

This post is linked with Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Hiking in Black and White ~ 9-7-12

 I took this shot this morning before leaving for school. 

We have several of them placed strategically on our property.

"Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself."

~Jamie Luner

One of the mountains Buddy summited in Maine on his hike this summer. 

Those are his poles.

"Climbing is as close as we can come to flying." 

~ Margaret Young, aviator and alpinist

Another mountain range he climbed this summer.

"Over every mountain there is a path,

 although it may not be seen from the valley."

~Theodore Roethk

This post is linked with: 

Weekend in Black and White

Water Hole ~ 9-6-12

The Drive to Work after a Night of Rain ~ 9-6-12

Before ~ SOOC

After Using RadLab "Troy"

Another Morning Sunrise ~ 9-5-12

Highland Belle Track at Start of Sunrise ~ 9-5-12

I-81 ~ 9-5-2012

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
~Vladimir Nabokov

Drooping Sunflowers ~ 9-4-12

I am going to go back to trying to post a picture a day. Last year I tried, but gave up. If at once I don't succeed, I need to persevere and try, try again. So, here I go!

Saying Goodbye is So Sad

"How lucky I am to have something that makes 
saying goodbye so hard."
~Corol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, "Annie"


This post is linked with NatureFootsteps Blo-Ma.

Daily Photo ~ 8-16-11 ~ Watery Wednesday

 Back before Buddy left for the big hike, I was standing alongside him as he was watering our little garden. Suddenly I noticed the "mini-rainbow.” I was like a little girl running into the house to grab my camera. Taking pictures is such fun!

"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” 

~Nelson Mandela

This post is linked to Watery Wednesday.

Daily Photo ~ 8-16-11 ~ "Signs, Signs” from Bud’s Big Hike

What more could Buddy want than to hike into a town with his name....yep...Buddy Johnson...that’s his name. So glad he sent us back this shot for Signs, Signs.
All of these photos are taken from his iPhone and sent to me SOOC for posting.
“From out ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.”
~Proverb


This post is linked with Lesley’s Signs, Signs.

Daily Photos ~ 8-13-11 ~ Shadow Shot Sunday ~ Update on Bud’s Hike

(I am assuming this sign meant to stop in for a drink and food before starting on our hike.)

Not having ever been to this area, and not knowing a thing about reading a hikers’s guide book and maps, the best I can do is post these unbelievable photos with little bits of info Buddy gives me over the home. I jot down what he is saying on post-its, and then I do back and try my best to put it all together so it makes some semblance of sense to me and all of you who have so faithfully followed his hike. I cannot begin to tell each one of you what your kind thoughts and words have meant to both of us...a wonderful extended family is what y’all have been. I can tell you without any hesitation he is loving every second of his hike no matter how difficult it has been, and his iPhone and the wonderful Vermont people who have hauled his pack about for him have been his saviors. He tells me these wonderful  folk are truly the salt of the earth. Most will take no money...they only ask that he make a contribution the the Green Mountain Fund for the care of the Long Trail. This is that good part of America we so seldom get to hear about.

Taft Lodge at Mount Mansfield ~ approximately 4,300 feet...the Lodge is a bit lower in elevation

Clouds atop Mount Mansfield

Taft Lodge about 1/2 mile from summit of Mount Mansfield

Bring on the winter gear.....

Priority Mail my fleece and wool cap ASAP. I am really getting cold.

Update for Saturday, August 13, 2001

Thank heavens for the ladders....a lot of rebar was used in many of them. Buddy was SO thankful all he had on him was his daypack + his 2 hiking sticks. He said there were lots more of these ladders than he would ever have imagined. Thanks goodness these ups and downs  are behind him...Oh, Hallelulujah!

All I want for Sunday is to get it better than today...sept by step, one by one...

...and there were plants and rocks, and birds, and things....

The Blair Witch, maybe????????

Looking back at Mount Mansfield 

Just another beautiful Saturday view...

...and another beautiful Saturday view...

...and one final beautiful Saturday view...

I think that after tonight he will be back out of range and staying in the lean-to shelters on the trail, but I will keep you posted on his progress when he is able to send photos. He did tell me he was about 80 miles from the Canadian border, but in terms of walking he has another week. He hopes to finish next Monday and then have the rest of that week to take day hikes from Killington, VT, and possibly go into Canada for a day and night. Thank goodness the old passport is in the backpack! I really do want him to come back home.Many. many thanks to all of you who have been following him and sending such wonderful words of encouragement. 


This post is linked with Shadow Shot Sunday, and once again, the photos were all taken with Buddy’s iPhone, SOOC, while hiking the Long Trail from Vermont to the Canadian Border.