How a simple one-day hiking excursion reveals wonderful people, beautiful landscapes, and colorful history. Imagine walking down an unpaved road moving further and further back in time coming to a lane lined on each side by red cedar trees. At the end of the lane you find in front of you the grand manor [...]
Archive for November, 2007
The Chapman Forrest
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forgotten History All Around Us: Two tales from 1814
Posted in History, Maryland, tagged 1812, History, Kayak, Patuxent, Walking on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every day we drive we pass them without any thought or possibly without any conscious knowledge of their existence. Our thoughts to preoccupied to even pay them much attention. They are hidden from our view, either below us under bridges or earth, hidden behind walls and woods or set off from the highway on [...]
Reuse and Recycling: A Steady Move Forward
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
About two weeks ago, I took another step in the long walk of taking responsibility for reducing waste and limiting my environmental footprint. The decision was to use a cloth (thus reusable) tote bag in lieu of the now omnipresent plastic bag for my grocery purchases. Using a tote bag was based partly [...]
