Category: My non-writing life

Book Quote Wednesday ~ #unable on 3/5/2024

Book Quote Wednesday ~ #unable on 3/5/2024

It’s #BookQW and Daeryn & Annmar are ‘unable’ to do anything to help. Briefly more (trying to avoid spoilers!) from The Twisting chapter 21: Daeryn was ready for things to be different. “Sylvan is gone. It’s taken me years to acknowledge it.” “It’s—oh.” Annmar stiffened next to him. “This is what you tried to tell […]

Alpine Wildflowers and Elk

Alpine Wildflowers and Elk

Hiking the tundra in Rocky Mountain National Park is one of our favorite summer excursions from our family cabin in Colorado. We arrive early to beat the traffic to the top of Trail Ridge Road and fit in a tundra hike before the afternoon thunderstorms rise. The short Medicine Bow trail has ptarmigans along it […]

Posted July 24, 2023 by Laurel Wanrow in My non-writing life, Nature / 0 Comments
Sandhill Crane Viewing!

Sandhill Crane Viewing!

We times a trip west to be able to stop along the Nebraska Flyway and view the sandhill cranes as they stopped during they migration north to refuel in the field along the Platte River. Seeing and hearing thousands of cranes converge is an amazing experience. We camped in Windmill State Recreation Area, Gibbon, Nebraska, […]

Texas Wildflowers

Texas Wildflowers

This spring we visited the hill country of Texas during the spring wildflower blooms. It’s hard to capture in a few photographs the stunning beauty of the roadsides bursting with color, due to the highway beautification efforts of Lady Bird Johnson in the 1960s. Ahead of her time, Lady Bird Johnson promoted seeding the nation’s […]

Posted June 3, 2022 by Laurel Wanrow in My non-writing life, Nature / 0 Comments
Sad news

Sad news

Friends, it’s with great sadness we relay our Copper has passed. He had a tumor removed last spring, but the aggressive cancer had already moved into his lungs and more recently his bones. We had months longer with our senior pup than expected, a total of 14. He was as loveable and laid back as […]

Posted March 26, 2022 by Laurel Wanrow in My non-writing life / 2 Comments