2013

Recommended for gardeners, seasoned or otherwise: caging Bright Lights Chard and other critter favorites.

25 Gardening Tips Late Winter through Spring (March-June)

As with most any undertaking, you get out of a garden what you put into it.
Kurt, Gail and Cookie on McAfee Knob, with the Peaks of Otter behind them on the horizon, 2/24/13; 9 years and one week into the hiking oddity.

The Joys of McAfee

Appalachian Trail from Va. 311 to McAfee Knob and back. 7.4 miles.

Out of the Nip, into the Chips

Our house to Alejandro's Restaurant and back. About 6.5 miles.
Matthew and Aden as we were transitioning from fall to winter.

Five Men Walking into a Different Season

Long ago, as early as the 1930s when he was a young man, the great-grandfather/grandfather/father of the men on this overnight hike began a hiking life that spanned parts of eight decades and pieces of the Appalachian Trail in most of its 14 states.

Urban Loop Pleasures, Treasures and Measures

From home along the Murray Run Greenway, Winding Way Road to Tanglewood Mall and all around it like geezer mall walkers; Franklin Road and Brandon Ave back home. About 6 miles

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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