Today, Bobby and I went hiking out in Frederick County at Sugarloaf Mountain. Sugarloaf Mountain is a monadnock, or stand-alone mountain; all of the other mountains around it have since eroded away. (The Appalachians were once the highest above-water mountain range in the world. They're significantly humbler now, but they've earned the right. :) ( Read more... )

Murphy has been having fun with me lately.

A few weeks ago, I posted about our outing to see Stars on Ice. Well, that morning, Bobby had complained of a scratchy throat. We chalked it up to spring in Carroll County and allergies. By the car ride home from the show that night, he was running a fever and chilled and achy ( Read more... )

Aside from looking for a house and building the SWG archive and writing a novella and everything else, Bobby and I have been hiking a couple of trails per week. The weather has been beautiful here in Maryland; Spring was late in coming, but she's treated us well since. And I've needed to walk, both physically and mentally. Having spent the winter ( Read more... )

A day early, yes, but I'm not sure if I'll be on the computer tomorrow. We have tickets to the ballgame in the afternoon, and I have stuff to do for betas and SWG ... and I do occasionally still work on my stories too ( Read more... )

This entry was written over the course of a couple of sittings. Pictures will soon follow, as soon as I yoink them off of Bobby's camera and get my film developed. (I know...film? What is that?!)

( Thursday )

Last Monday, Bobby and I took off from work to hike to the Cat Rock in the Catoctin Mountains and take photographs of the autumn foilage. We ended up with seventy-five pictures, many of them redundant, so I'm only going to post a limited selection here. If you are interested in viewing all of the hiking pictures, they are available in the_nautilus here.

( Autumn in the Catoctin Mountains )

Life has been busy lately in the rather random sense. I've taken lots of pictures over the last week, during our various excursions, and finally have the chance to upload and post them ( Read more... )

Here are about two-weeks worth of pictures that I've been meaning to post. Sadly, more often than not, I fail to download pictures off of our camera because--now that we have wireless Internet--I'm too lazy to set up on the desk and plug into the USB hub. Yikes ( Read more... )

Bobby and I tried out a new park today, or rather, a new area of the extensive Patapsco Valley State Park called Orange Grove. I do not know why it is called that, as oranges certainly do not grow in Maryland. "Blue Crab Grove," certainly, or "Silver Queen Corn Grove" but oranges? Not hardly ( Read more... )

Today is the 4th of July, Independence Day, following right on the heels of Canada Day. So happy holidays to my North American friends! (I don't think I have anyone from Mexico on my flist, so I'm safe. :^P ( Read more... )