Author Archive: tkscovill
Geese taking over the campground parking lot. They were here first!
Just after Labor Day these geese showed up at the park as a pack of four. They went from site to site, up the hills, down the hills, and through the parking lot, oblivious of cars or bikes or children. There were other geese in the park, but they stayed in the lake, floating around …
Deer everywhere!
First Contact Sitting in my car, exhausted from the cross-country trip, wondering how I ended up here, crying my eyes out, and up comes this little one. We stared at each other for several minutes. She seemed to understand my discombobulation. Her calm, yet intense gaze brought me back to myself. If she can do …
Smoke but no fire.
This is as bad as it got here. We’ve had fires burning all around us for the whole month of August, and there were days we wondered if we’d have to pick up all of our camping paraphernalia and head west. So far, that has not happened and we’ve only had blue skies for the …
Out of the smoke, into the fog
Aug. 8, 2013 Back to the present moment….(two weeks ago, that is) Right now we are in Florence, OR, on our way to Brookings, OR to get ready for a yard sale on Saturday. We’ve been checking out campgrounds on the Oregon Coast, which is absolutely gorgeous, even with the perpetual fog and mist. The …
New wrinkles
Finally. I have reliable internet access…at least I think I do. So, I thought I’d try to figure out some of the finer points of this wordpress blog program, like how to post photos without all the gobbledy-gook codes on top of them, or how to attach video or simply how to save my work …
Walking
There is something to be said for the simple act of walking. We were built to walk. It comes naturally for most of us. Walking can easily become deep meditation if you just let yourself get quiet and pay attention to what is going on around you. No destinations, no goals, just one foot in …
“I’ll have a Belgian waffle, please.”
June 16, 2013 In the same room as us and the biker club sat an older couple. They were just behind Sam, so I could see them pretty clearly. They hobbled in with their canes and crooked backs and sat down across from each other like they had done many times before I’m sure. The …
A room full of bikers
June 16, 2013 The day we left Mt. Shasta we ate at a “famous” local restaurant called Black Bear Diner. The food is good, usually fresh and in substantial portions. The place is filled with bears of course, and there is a sense of wilderness both inside and outside. This particular restaurant has been there …
Letting go of expectations, well, at least trying…
June 4, 2013 When I was training with YogaFit, we heard this mantra in almost every class, “Letting go of competition, judgment and expectations…” I could understand letting go of competition, and I could work on letting go of judgment, but expectations? I thought it was pretty strange to let go of expectations when …
Bridging east and west
June 4, 2013 In several conversations with campers this past week I mentioned that I have family on both coasts. Lots of people respond with the same story—met here, got married there, moved there, had children there, now going back and forth from one place to the next all year long. “And we love it!” …
on the road to simplicity 