Sad story to report….Some of you will think me silly, but I truly love animals and nature and I hate to see any animal die for unnecessary reasons. This incident is especially sad, for what I explain at the end. Late Monday afternoon I stopped work to water my backyard plants using water from […]
Patience, Grasshopper:
In early August, late one Sunday evening–August 7 to be precise– I was gathering habanero peppers. It was hot and I was tired. The pepper plants were short and so, to avoid bending over, I’d plopped myself down and was sitting in the grass, picking peppers off one plant at a time. I would gather […]
Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve
Cane Creek Canyon is a privately-protected nature preserve in Colbert County, Alabama, near my family’s land. Dr. Jim and Faye Lacefield established the the nature preserve on 700-acres of land, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. My brother introduced me to hiking at the Preserve in 2007 and I fell in love with the beauty […]
Camping Plus Yoga For Women
Summer McCreless is a wife and mom who once worked as an Outward Bound instructor. Ashley Baker is a yoga instructor and 13-year practitioner of yoga. Time in nature has always been important to both women, who were casual friends through yoga, local foods and other events in the Shoals area of northwest Alabama. One […]