Monday, October 10, 2011

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Sorry Christmas. It is the most wonderful time of the year. This weekend, Sarah and I took a short hiking trip near Boone, NC. The spot we found was perfect, and the leaves were getting near their peak. Kora spent a long time running in the meadow pictured below, mostly just doing her spastic Border Collie running but sometimes in hot pursuit of a bug or bird. Pretty sure we'll head back to this spot soon. Bet you can't look at these pictures and not think that it really is the most wonderful time of the year!
Mountain to Sea Trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway
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Resting off the trail

We stopped to let Kora run free through the meadow

View from off the Parkway

Saturday, October 1, 2011

We're back! I know you're excited!

Yes, it's been a while. No real reason other than blogging got pushed far down the list once a new semester of school started for Sarah and work got busy for me. There's really been nothing big to report from the last few months. But, I'll give it a go here and try to make it interesting, so stick with me.

Sarah's working on putting together a viewing of King Corn with filmmaker Ian Cheney at Duke on Monday. If anyone wants to go, send me or Sarah an email. The film is great and available online for free, so check it out if you like things that are funny AND informative. You know you do.

Sarah's also taking a mycology class this semester, so she's collecting lots of pictures like the one below. I was just looking through her camera to get some pictures for this post, and there were dozens of mushrooms. I do have a serious appreciation for mushrooms now actually, or at least Sarah tells me that I should and I believe her.
A couple weekends ago we went for a hike along the Haw River. It wasn't all that adventurous. Nothing much happened except for my sightseeing and Sarah's mushroom hunting. Really Sarah was just doing a more professional version of sightseeing. It's not that different, really.

Haw River
Haw River
Haw River
Finally, Sarah went off to New Orleans a few weeks ago to present some research she worked on over the summer. She was invited and got a grant to go. Yeah, Sarah does lots of stuff. But, I totally keep up. Totally. In fact, I kind of leave Sarah in my dust most of the time. I'm just too humble to talk about it on our blog. Anyway, the next entry will definitely be about the awesome stuff I do. Definitely.

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