Well, so much for a third free-hike this year. The wind is gusting to more than 50 km/hr and the sun is playing peek-a-boo with most of the time spent hiding behind clouds. There was even several minutes of showers during the morning. This afternoon, the possibility of storms is growing stronger. The last thing I need is to find myself miles from nowhere where trees are strangers to the environment in a storm that could include hail. So, I…
I’m a bit late with getting in my first free hike of the year and I blame it on the weather. Whenever it has been warm enough, there had been strong winds. I want to enjoy hiking au naturel, not simply do it just to say I have done it. I guess that is the guiding principle of anything and everything naturist – do it because it feels good and gives you pleasure. There are no ribbons or trophies to…
The wind has faded and is now a light breeze. The young leaves on the trees are rustling rather than clinging onto their branches as if in danger of being ripped off by one of the powerful gusts that have become normal. The temperature this morning stands at 8° Celsius with tiny openings in the cloud cover to allow stray pools of sunshine to appear. It’s a good day to be alive. A passing half ton truck raises a cloud…
I can tell we are back home because of the wind. Our time away from home was a time that was basically without wind. When we left home more than a week ago, we left the wide open spaces of the prairies for woodlands, forests, meadows, and occasional rain showers. Our home on the prairies continued to experience drought and wind. I have to admit, it gets tiring. I am not sure when I can get out for an enjoyable…
Well, it has been a very adventurous week with my daughter and her family. Monday we stopped at Theodore Roosevelt National Park and did some hiking in the badlands canyons, the Painted Canyon trail. The next morning we stopped at the Yellowstone Hot Springs pools in Corwin Springs for a few hours of relaxing in the hot springs before going on to Yellowstone National Park and a visit to the Mammoth Hot Springs before heading to West Yellowstone to our…
Grandson number 4 graduated today. Since he lives eleven hours by car from my home, it involved a full day of travel to get to his home. Yesterday it was all about a garden social with some of his classmates and their parents in my daughter’s backyard. Today, the grad ceremony took front and centre with all sorts of photos taken at the site and then in the front yard to celebrate the event and record it for posterity. For…
Though I am a naturist and I am comfortable around other people who are unclothed and refrain from sexualising my nudity or their nudity, I am a man who has sex on my brain. I am drawn to women and not to men. But to be more precise, I am not usually sexually attracted to some women who are often strangers. Thankfully, this all happens within my head and doesn’t get acted upon. I have my sex drive under control….
I went to Puerto de Chuburná, a small Yucatecan fishing village in Mexico, in January of 2009. on one side of Chuburná was the Gulf of Mexico, on the other side of the village was an estuary, a salt-water swampland. I had gone to this corner of Mexico to get away from the cold Canadian winter hoping to enjoy an extra three months of summer. That was all. There was no other intention. I would write, take photos, get a tan,…
I have just found a document that I had thought had vanished six years ago. The document was a reworking of a small booklet I wrote in 2009, the first in a series I called Though a Jungian Lens. Two of four parts were completed and the photos for both parts were safely in place. As a result, I am going to return to that work next week. The fourth part is almost fully complete as well. It is mostly…
This grandparenting gig is exhausting to say the least. And, it is a good kind of tiredness. I don’t know who gets more tired, the grandparents or the grandchildren. Yesterday we took the two littles [three and five] to a swimming pool that has so much to entertain young ones. We made multiple trips up winding staircases to quickly descend waterslides, several visits to a variety of hot pools, bouncing around in the main pool when it turned into a…