sleeping bear dunes – J.T. McKinney

to the moon

11.August.2022 [Tweddle/Treat Farms, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: evening hike with James, 8:45p-10:30p] I rarely plan a hike in advance. When we both have an ache to be outside and a serendipitous moment of free time, we go. I think through the list of options (always limited by the available time) and choose our adventureContinue reading “to the moon”

fruits of labor and beauty

14. May. 2017 [Tweddle & Treat Farms, SBDNL: hike with James, 2:30-4:45pm] Walking through the tall grass in these fields that have gone fallow, it’s easy to get the sensation of walking in two places at once – the present and the past. The self-sowing perennials have lived on long past the homesteaders who plantedContinue reading “fruits of labor and beauty”

from a visit to Platte Plains

09. September. 2017 [Platte Plains Trail, SBDNL: hike with James, 11:00am-1:00pm] As our tires left the smooth and measured asphalt and began the uneven, rocky descent of Trails End Road, I realized we were asking a lot of the woods. I always come expecting to take away a sense of comfort, peace, wholeness – allContinue reading “from a visit to Platte Plains”