"It doesn't matter what you think.
Words are found responsible
all you can do is choose them
or choose
to remain silent. Or, you never had a choice,
which is why the words that do stand
are responsible

and this is verbal privilege"

-Adrienne Rich

I took off work yesterday and ended up going for a walk to take some pictures. Of course I was hoping I might get a snake picture. And I did! Check it out. I believe it's a black racer. Non poisonous but rather easily irritable and fast too. It took a while before it finally decided I wasn't a threat and then it calmly moved off the trail. Click on ( Read more... )

So yeah Saturday morning I was having a great mountain bike ride on a beautiful day. That is until I neglected to get myself and the bike up a steep hill. Funny how when you aren't moving forward on a steep hill the front wheel of the bike will leave the ground and with nothing but air to gain purchase on the whole bike will tumble over. The ( Read more... )

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This is the first weekend morning I have slept late. Then I decided I was doing a whole heckava lot of nothing until I felt differently. I never do this anymore. Seems I am always rushing to get out or get a ride in or work on the house or the yard or something ( Read more... )

"Exercising Generates new brain cells ( Read more... )

This week appears to have sped by and yet last weekend feels as if it happened a month ago. Is that not an odd realization or what ( Read more... )

Is it hot as all get were you are? I think it was more along the lines of extreme humidity than hot today ( Read more... )

So it's simply put. You never know where it is coming from. It is just there when we look over our shoulder. Suddenly. Marveling at the fact that life has a way of throwing curves and confusing us. Is it because we fail to see what lies right in front of us? The confusion that is. Maybe it isn't what you thought it would be. Maybe not what was ( Read more... )

A busy weekend and then some. So you know I took a few pictures as well. Tried to ride the bike Saturday morning but after a couple of loops a friend and I decided to stop as the trails were not in the best shape after all the rain we had Friday. After that we went off to hike to the waterfall which is where the pictures come in. And Saturday was ( Read more... )