No New Trail!
Today at lunch I read this story in the Globe about a new round of litigation that the Ruby Jack Trail is up against. Stuff like this frustrates me to no end. Basically the story is that the Joplin Trails Coalition is developing a 16 mile rails to trails project from Carthage to the KS state line...
Read MoreDark Sky
I am a huge fan of the night sky. I absolutely love it. So light pollution is something that has bugged me for a long time, even though a lot of people don’t even know exactly what it is or care. According to the international dark-sky association, light pollution is “Any adverse...
Read MoreSnow Hiking
Saturday was an unusual day… snow on the ground, but temps in the 60s. I thought it would be a good opportunity to do some hiking, so Matt and I took a quick trip down to the Mark Twain National Forest near Cassville. We were planning to hike to a really cool natural bridge rock formation we...
Read MoreSnow at Last
I like winter in general – snow, cold weather, and a fire in the fireplace. One thing I do HATE is the trend over the last few years of receiving ICE instead of snow…aka the freezing rain of terror that has been the theme of winter for the last couple years. We generally don’t...
Read MoreThe Drive Home
My drive home from work each day is maybe a mile at best but on a fairly regular occasional I feel compelled to stop and take a photo of something. Here is one such photo I took last week that I thought was worth sharing. The sun was just setting and was at such an angle that the light was just...
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