Here I am.

I am an explorer, photographer, writer, lover of life.  Yeah, I know that all sounds cheesy…and it sorta is.  But it’s all true, I promise you!  It started with photography and then I began to hike and next I started to write about my hiking excursions.  Now I write about all sorts of stuff that pops into my head.  My favorite muse is my husband.  I love this man to the moon and find him quite the character.  He drives me crazy but as my brother once told me, at least he makes life interesting.  And I try to remember this every time he brings a kayak into the living room or comes home with yet another cooler (he has this weird obsession with coolers).  He truly is my best friend.

I write about my adventures.  You see, I love to climb mountains, drive to far away places, and spend a lot of time alone in the woods.  Sometimes my adventure is simply having a cup of coffee with a friend.  Or learning something new about my doggies.

I believe we create our own adventures and learned this early on in my childhood.  I lived in the country and the days of summer were long.  With only three channels on our TV (all soap operas), I had to find my own entertainment.  Usually this entailed the creek behind my house or the woods beyond that creek.  In those woods I would create trails and find secret hideaways.  Usually a dog was my company and sometimes my friend Michelle or little brother Dusty would join me.  Later, around the age of twelve, my new adventure partner was a plastic point and shoot camera my godfather gave me for Christmas.  Together we would run thru the woods and stopping when Mother Nature gifted us with something magical such as the light streaming across the pathway or the ripples in the creek or perhaps a pretty flower.

Nowadays my adventure choice of terrain are the Colorado Rocky Mountains…as high up as they will take me.  I’ve graduated to overnight excursions of alpine camping or road tripping to all the quaint places…a long way from the days running through the creek and woods behind my house on Low Gap Road in Alexandria, Kentucky.