When you live in the middle of nowhere you get to enjoy night skies filled with a few million stars with a crystal clear view of the Milky Way you just can’t find in the city. Living in the boondocks I can go for a mountain bike ride deep in the deserted forest and not …
The hills are a dry, dusty dirt mess as I head out of town. This drought is destroying our once beautiful national forest. Years ago when I commuted this mountain highway to work in the spring time the hills would be a bright and vibrant green reminding me of Ireland, a foreign …
I hike and run in our national forest which sits just outside my door all the time. You would think I would be aware of the painful make you itch, sting and your skin ooze disgustingly for days plants. Yet every spring and summer I find myself drawn to poison oak and Stinging Nettle …