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Articles in the wandering category

A Short Walk Around the Poor's Farm

I have wanted to walk the Salt Marsh Trail for a while, but we are typically only over that part of town in the summer and I always assume that it is full of mosquitos. So I thought we would head over there today to check it out before the …

A quick wander around the city this weekend

It was a very chilly wander around town, but I wanted to get a feel for what the low information crowd was up to. As you can see in the photos below I did come across a couple of them, but I was very happy to NOT to see many …

Work Travel Photo Dump

Back in the "before time" I spent a lot of time on the road and visiting places around North America and this is where I'm dumping photos as I find them.

Over time I will add some context, but that's not today.

Trying to get some outside time

It has been extremely hard to get out in the woods this winter. Too much ice. This is a great example of that, everything was just 100% ice. We didn't stay out too long and just did some light exploring.

Something else is that it seems like its been a …

A wander in the Urban Barrens

For something to do, and to help the baby nap we went for a drive. The idea was to head to a path around town, maybe Hemlock Ravines, but when we got there the small parking lot was packed. We didn't feel like being around so many people so we …

Another walk in the woods

We took a wander out to the Pockwock Falls outside Upper Hammonds Plains, NS. It is a simple walk out an old service road and then less 100m off the road north, just before the bridge.

Spokane 5 yrs ago - working on the road

Up until March of last year I did a lot of travelling for work. Before our oldest was born that travelling included a lot of time back in Spokane, WA and all over the PNW or the inland empire as some call it.

After they were born I stuck closer …