Nature's Canvas

As most of you know, I am on a National Park hunt, and as I am moving about the country, I am finding exceptional historic parks and monuments under the National Park Service. One of them is the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park, a group of four missions built by the Spanish in the […]

Louisiana. Where do I start with my adventure to Louisiana? I guess my adventure started with researching National Parks in the state. Did you know there is a National Park and National Park Visitor Center in the French Quarter in New Orleans? The French Quarter, and the Mardi Gras, has always intrigued me, but I […]

And the journey begins. I left Minnesota just over a week ago and, honestly, I don’t miss the cold at all!! Though the variety of weather I experienced the month I was there was a typical Minnesota winter/spring – about 19 below when I arrived to nearly 50 degrees about three weeks later, to a […]

While visiting Big Cypress National Preserve I got lost in the woods. Figuratively. I found out about Big Cypress while at Biscayne National Park and decided I had to visit before I headed back to Orlando. It was going to be a quick visit, so I decided to drive the 24-mile loop road, stopping just […]

What is it about water that draws a man? (Man meaning human.) I once created a book ruminating on that question for my mother-in-law who lived on a lake. It is a question with as many unique answers as there are humans. For me, the answer is simple: freedom, sustenance and support. There is a […]

I never imagined I would end up having lunch with horses. I mean, I didn’t get up that morning thinking I would be eating with them. Packing my backpack to catch the ferry to Cumberland Island National Seashore I was hoping to see them, but who would have thought? I had been trying to visit […]