As an older person, okay – a very old person – my life has slowed down considerably. I still do things though not as much or not so quickly. It’s not that I take naps in the afternoon, I’m not that old. It’s just that I try to slow down and enjoy the things that I do. For example, my wife set me a task to cut up and sauté onions, and then to do the same with some mushrooms…
We went for a twelve and a half kilometre walk in the sunshine this morning. The walk was different than our usual walk to the prairie hills. It wasn’t long before we saw moose hoofprints. Further down the dirt road, we met mud and were forced to walk through a wheat field until the dirt road became walkable. By the time we reached our turn around point [well two hundred metres short of the turn around point – there was…
In the process of checking over 600 posts that remain here at Naturist Lens, I noticed that the past two years have seen very little posted here. During that time, I wrote mostly at Medium. Since the beginning of this year, I have basically given up on that platform as an income source. In 2024, I earned just over $4,000 in royalties. So far this year, I have earned $40 in royalties. I have to admit that I have given…
It started raining sometime during the night. The forecast was certain it would rain, but our visitors yesterday evening complained that the clouds somehow separated and left our town high and dry. Like so many people on the prairies, they view positive statements and expressed hopes as a sure way to have the opposite happen when it comes to weather, crops, or about their own lives. They embrace negativity while secretly hoping for good results. My wife and I are…
The weather forecast for the next few days is incredible. It’s supposed to rain. There is a tiny downside for us – the country dirt roads will become pure mud. So, we opted for a long thirteen kilometre hike down dirt roads this morning. We both started off wearing a tee shirt and a long-sleeved shirt. Three kilometres later, the shirts were hung on a sign. Another kilometre had the tee shirts tossed on the side of the dirt trail…
Okay, who said that every post has to be anything but prosaic. Most of our lives are unexciting to say the least. Think about it. We sleep, get up and start each day using repeated patterns. For me, it is making morning coffee and sitting on the backyard deck to enjoy that coffee when the weather is right. Other mornings coffee is on the love seat while looking out the picture window at the silent world. We get up early,…
The wedding is over and our third grandson in now married. We got home late yesterday afternoon, no time to go for a walk. Rather, we decided to sit on the back deck and enjoy our beautiful yard while celebrating being home with some wine. It’s almost noon here and we have just finished our six-kilometre walk around our small town. After lunch, I will be heading out for another walk, this time alone. There is a free-hike on my…
I woke up this morning to smoke filled skies. The idea of going for a free-hike this afternoon is now in question. I am allergic to smoke, not as bad as I used to be thanks to holistic medical help, but still enough to make it uncomfortable for me to spend too much time in smokey conditions. The political situation in both Canada and the USA also had a lot to do with it. The election of Donald Trump, the…
Yes, clothing is a reality in a northern climate. Snow is still on the ground as spring approaches. In reality, spring doesn’t come to the Canadian prairies until sometime in April with the last frost hopefully happening before the last week in May. I know it has been said repeatedly by so many, but we are indeed naked beneath our clothing. What does our nudity beneath our clothing actually tell us? We all have skin. We all have body parts….
As I write this entry, I am in Lisbon, Portugal. As I suspected before we left for Europe, there are no options for nudity outside of our accommodations. Since it was expected, my focus has been on enjoying our travels as much as possible. Madrid was all that I had hoped for with more than enough to see without having to leave the city. We had basic accommodations in Madrid – clean and functional – in a nice, quiet neighbourhood…