The Great Outdoors

Eldred, this is the best forum I’ve posted on in AGES. After the gardeners leave, I’ll post pics of shelf clouds from yesterday and our hummingbird chick that just hatched yesterday.

I will NOT tell Miss Hummingbird that you said that - she worked VERY hard making her nest sturdy. And yes, it’s true, newborn hummingbird chicks are NOT particularly cute. What looks like a spider are actually the chick’s feathers. The chicks will become MUCH cuter but let’s face it, even newborn humans aren’t particularly cute (except to Mom and Dad, of course.)

Thanks for the posts. I created this thread to remind people that, regardless the problems we face, the world is still a beautiful place and well worth enjoying. When I head out into nature I'm leaving those problems behind for a while. We don't need them here, either.

(I tried posting earlier but my internet has been flaky all day.)

I go hiking with my family quite a lot it's better than normal holidays. I wanna climb a proper mountain but so far it's only been big hills

I've been to the peak district, lake district and the Cairngorms

A leisurely hike is one of the best ways to relax that I know. No pressure to be anywhere or do anything but enjoy the scenery.

I'd love to go to Scotland. Some of my ancestors are from the Highlands and I'm sure I'm owed a family castle somewhere. (I deserve a castle.) I thought I knew what mountains were while growing up. I learned better my first time in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

My husband is an ancestor of William Wallace(the Braveheart guy) and I'm half- Scottish so we'd love to go there too.

Yeah Scotland is amazing for scenery you should go. The only thing is it's really windy

There's a beautiful little homestead near Little Scatwell that I chose for a retirement home some years ago. Someday I'll offer them $5.00 cold, hard cash for the whole place. Maybe they'll laugh themselves to death and I can forge a will or something. Opportunity comes to those who knock.

... others off. The double chainsaw bunny is available for hire

Little bunny, will ye protect COW?

too many meat eaters around here…

COW needs SECURITY!

Not much of the outdoors here but here's a blocked sunrise at a beach 4.5km or a brisk 45mins walk from my home. Just taken about an hour ago.

Sweet. Sunrise is always magical. But it's bedtime. G'night.

Just went rock climbing with some of my friends in the Ozarks. Good to have a few days off of the phone and enjoying the nature.