• Flowering Tree
    Thoughts

    Keeping Focused on the Diet

    I am still on the diet. This is coming to the end of week 3 of calorie tracking and I am down 5.8 pounds. Surprisingly, these three weeks have been easier than I expected. I have had 5 days where…

  • Hiking

    Hiking Bennett Springs Mo

    Bennett Springs If you like to fish and live near Missouri, there is a good chance you have heard of Bennett Springs. If you are not into fishing … well, there are a couple of trails and plenty of car-camping…

  • Hiking

    Starting off right

    Well, today is the first day of 2015.  I’m not one to put a great deal of stock into marking the change from one year to the next.  Mostly the new year means I’ll spend a few weeks crossing off…

  • Events

    Wait…where am I?

    Wow, I have been busy lately.  I really have been meaning to post more, but so far, I have just been managing to get my weekly Owin episodes out.  Here is a quick update on what I’ve been doing, as…

  • Hiking

    Pictures on the trail

    This post is overdue and I still have tons of other images to process, but I wanted to get a couple of pictures posted for everyone to enjoy. I’m a fan of soft water, so I often have to stop…

  • writing

    The Evocative

    There are certain things that when we see, hear, or smell them, they just put us into that proper state of mind where we are instantly transported to another time or place, or perhaps even another world.  For each person,…