January Blues

 

Just Stopping In For A Drink

Wild Mushroom

Forest Mushrooms

 

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

A bunch from Payne's Prairie La Chua Trail I never posted..oops😏

I still got a bunch more so I will sprinkle them into some more Wordless Wednesday's wordful wednesday's or Throwback Thursday's when I can. 

Living Without Fear

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a hard time with this concept most days. I have always had a bit of anxiety but after my son was born it tripled. I was scared of everything and was worried/fearful something would happen to him. I mean let’s be honest in this bat world we live in I still am but I handle it a bit better now. I still get anxiety when we are doing something on the fly because I feel unprepared but even if it is something we planned I also get no sleep the night before worrying about everything that can go wrong but instead of just cancelling plans or saying “Ya’ll go I will stay here.” I breathe through it and go cause I don’t want to miss the moments that I know I will cherish forever.

One day in the near future my precious boy (i.e. manchild) will venture out on his own and I won’t get to see him everyday so when there is a chance to spend a day with him soaking up our surroundings and listening to his crazy funny ideas and stories I don’t care how anxious it makes me I don’t hesitate to take the journey.

So this year he wants to do more adventures in the wilderness around our state and maybe even venturing into other states and that is what we are gonna do.

So get out and get some fresh air and have some unforgettable moments!

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~Helen Keller

Flashy Friday–Mini Vacay

We took a mini vacay to the Gulf to go Scalloping and then headed south to Treasure Island and here are just a handful of the bazillion pictures I took.

We had a blast snorkeling and scalloping. If you have never been you need to go!!

Hubby doesn’t get much room for vacation he has it just hard to take it so we took a couple days to decompress at the beach and the sunsets both nights were so pretty!

Our last night there the clouds were making all kinds of shapes.

Mickey

The Hookah Caterpillar

Shark which was fitting since it was shark week.

My little friend. He was just a posing…you know I wanted to name him and take him home. LOL

The water is sooo flat over there. I always forget you could literally take a float out there unlike our side where a float would be toast by the first wave.

And a self portrait..Bahahahaha there are literally no pictures of me at the beach not even a selfie…..

Happy Friday

Wordless Wednesday

Flashy Friday–On The Lake

My husbands Aunt & Uncle have the prettiest property.

I could sit out there and take photos all day long.

Have a great weekend!

Unplugging

Lately all the political crap being shoved down my throat on every media outlet imaginable is just too much for me & my anxiety. It frustrates me how many people on both sides will post stuff that is not even factual. I seriously can not tell you how many times a day I roll my eyes after doing my own research.

I feel like shouting Google is your friend & so is the local library.

~

So yesterday I gave my phone to the hubs so we would have a map and wouldn’t get totally lost in the wilderness and unplugged for several hours. We went on a nice 6 mile hike through the woods to the River. My back & feet hated me but my soul needed it!!!

It was so nice to just breathe in the fresh air and spend time chatting and laughing with my guys.

I am really hoping that everything going on in our nation today will soon make sense but in the mean time I think I will be unplugging a lot more this year!!

Happy Monday my friends.