Category: United States

Summer Hikes: Fort Worth Nature Center – Bear and I

For those that are curious as to the reason for the disruption of my normal posting schedule.Writing Update: The first draft is complete! Holy cow I wrote over 70,000 words for one draft. Truth be told, it is still a bit mind boggling. Is it perfect? Heck no, not at all but my wonderful husband

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Texas: Bluebonnet Festival

I have wanted to go to the Bluebonnet Festival in Ennis Texas for a ridiculous long time and finally made it this year! The actually festival is only one weekend a year but the whole month of April people can drive the bluebonnet trails. There are a lot of bluebonnets and other wild flowers and

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Birthday Flowers | Happy Pups

My birthday is in early April and I needed a bit of nature. We took the dogs out for an easy hike at the Forth Worth Nature Center. Yes, dogs, Miss Ava with the snaggletooth was a guest. We saw the bison and butterflies, and plenty of wildflowers. The day was overcast and a bit

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Niagara Falls: Crossing the Rainbow Bridge

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I spoke a little bit about the Rainbow Bridge last week but wanted to bring more attention to it. There are two ways to get across the bridge: driving and walking. Driving typically takes a lot longer because those crossing have to go through border patrol on each end and pay a toll. The actual

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Niagara Falls Wine Tasting

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Originally we did not have a wine tasting on our to do list for Niagara Falls. However, due to flight times we flew in a day earlier than we had initially planned. We already had a big falls tour scheduled with Niagara Regional Tours and my sister talked to them to get a winery tour

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