Middlewood Journal

The cloudy skies set off the leaves' beautiful colors this afternoon. The yellows of the hickories, poplars and maples glowed like they...

The maples and sourwoods surprised me this morning as the dogs and I headed out for our walk. I didn't realize how much they'd turn...

Late yesterday afternoon I hiked with the dogs along the pipeline. It was warmer than the weekend, but still pretty cool for mid-October. ...

It was a cloudy afternoon that finally broke up and showed patches of blue sky and - yes - some SUNSHINE! The dogs and I headed out for a w...

Beautiful sunny day! Yesterday's soaking rains are gone, leaving us with blue skies and a waning crescent daytime moon. While we were ...

This is yesterday's post that didn't get finished until today! It was started out in a field full of fall asters, goldenrods, and b...

Today is all blue skies, dry air, and wind waving the treetops. A great day to be outside. Radu, Daisy and I headed out around 11:00 to hik...

It was hot today, surprisingly so for the end of September. Thinking we were early enough for cool temps, Radu, Daisy and I headed out arou...

Such a nice morning to hike! The pipeline guys are finally gone, thank goodness, and they've taken all their heavy equipment away. Wha...

Today's weather was amazing for the first day of September. It was windy and cool on the pipeline as the dogs and I walked east. When ...

This is yesterday's drawing - another from Waynesville, NC. It was so nice to be in the cool, lush mountains after suffering the hot, r...

This morning was cool and breezy when I headed out to hike around 8 o'clock. As I walked through the woods I noticed a beautiful fresh ...

This is the first day in a long while that I've had time to wander on the pipeline, so I was glad to find that it was overcast and breez...

Visiting Atlantic Beach, Florida is more than just a vacation - it's coming home to a place I've known my whole life. My grandmothe...

These shelf fungi are growing on a rotting stump in the woods behind the house. My husband found it and came running into the house to tell...

I love surprises and today I got one! As I hiked down the steepest part of the trail above Meetinghouse Creek I came eye to eye with a frui...

These are yesterday's drawings that stretched into today due to the fact that the black background took so long!   Yesterday morning...

A quickie post today.  This is yesterday's journal entry but I had no time to post it.  Instead I slapped the book shut, stuck it in my ...

It was a nice breezy morning on the pipeline.  There were blue skies, and it was quiet except for the high buzz of cicadas in the trees.    ...

A front passed through yesterday, and although there were storms all around to be seen and heard, our particular spot didn't get a drop ...