Day 28 – The garden provided my nature time today.  Weeding around the kale, carrots, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, onions and garlic and giving my perennial herbs their pre-winter haircut.  I harvested the rest of the parsley to replenish my dried supply for the winter.  Feeling – satisfied. Day 29 – Went for a run at…

Day 24 -Back to normal life, well sort of.  Amtrak is shut down, so I had to drive to Philly.  So, no walk along the Wilmington Riverfront before my train.  But I did get to do a good bit of walking around UPenn.  I am surprised that one of the most lushly treed areas on…

Days 22 & 23 were pretty much a washout thanks to Hurricane Sandy.  I am glad to say that we were lucky and were unscathed.  I got out for awhile this morning to do cleanup in the garden and went for a walk, so I go in my 30 minutes today, but not yesterday.  The…

I want to apologize to anyone who received notification of  2 posts last night that do not exist.  I was working on early drafts of  squash bread and pesto-ricotta souffle posts, and they were accidentally published.  So, stayed tuned for those in the future, they are not quite ready for prime time yet. Back to…

Day 16 – Disappointments turn to opportunities.  The day was going to be a very busy day, I was stressing over how I would fit in my 30-minute nature break.  Unforeseen, my afternoon appointment was cancelled (after I had driven an hour to get there).  SopI turned around, an extra hour in my day (aside…

The second week of the 30 x 30 Challenge continues with time in Delaware, Philadelphia and Toronto. Day 9 started out with my usual walk on the Wilmington Riverfront before my train.  Since I have never mentioned it, it is the Christina River that I am walking along.  I then had a picnic lunch at…

It was the weekend, and that means good, quality nature time. It started on Day 5, Friday – In the morning, I picked raspberries in our yard and harvested my garden.  My oldest daughter was home from college, so, after lunch, we went for a 2.6 mile walk on the pondside trail at Killens Pond…

Day 2 was really tough – cold and rainy, in Philly with no free time.  Luckily I had a lot of walking to do from place to place, so I could focus on observing the nature around me.  I even ended up meeting a squirrel face to face as I walked past the tree he…

Ok, time to get it on with the Challenge and spend some quality time with nature! For day 1, I decided to walk the path in a county park I had never visited.  I was very unimpressed, it was a very boring 2.6 mile path that skirted the edge of some woods.  Then, I came…