Happy Early Birthday!

P.F. Chang's for dinner, picking up Cheesecake Factory cheesecake for a late night desert, and stopping by the local outdoor store to pick out my new kayaks! Happy early birthday to me!

Happy Place

Going green for summer ...

Happy Place

My happy place is often better after the rains come ... though the trails may lack a little something to be desired, the waterfalls are much bigger and faster ...

A little muddy today ...

Wildflowers starting to bloom ...

Lots more water than last time ...

Water rolling down the actual trail ...

Fording the stream on the trail ...

Down Time

Three boys. Sports. Activities. Therapies. Homework. CLS workers. Life never seems to slow down. Sometimes I have to take a sanity day just for me. Today was one of those days. So while the boys were in school today, I went to my happy place ... a little four-mile walk in the woods to some cool water ...