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Celebrating Nine years of Blogging

March 19, 2022March 18, 2022Posted in CelebrationTagged blogging, blogging anniversary, Blogversary41 Comments

March 19, 2022 marks the ninth anniversary of my first post on the Wandering Dawgs blog. I started the blog in 2013 as a way to keep friends and family up to date on our journey from Georgia to Alaska and back. Here I am, nine years later, still blogging.

I enjoyed keeping up the blog even after we returned from our Alaska adventure. For several years I mostly posted about our RV travels before I expanded my focus to include posts about gardening, birds, wildlife, coastal Georgia, and other random things. I still post about our travels even though we don’t take the RV any more. I started participating in photo challenges somewhere along the way.

The header image above was taken in front of our RV in Skagway, our first stop in Alaska in 2013.

*Wandering Dawgs in Barbados on our recent Caribbean Islands Adventure*, *January, 2022*

Thank you to everyone who visits Wandering Dawgs. I really appreciate all the visits, likes, comments and shares over the years. I value each and every one of my blogging friends! Thank you for your kind words and encouragement through the years!

I just renewed Wandering Dawgs for another year. I hope to keep this up until I run out ideas and photos!

Lens-Artists #97: Pastimes

May 23, 2020Posted in PhotographyTagged beach, blogging, Lens-Artists, Memorial Day, Pastimes, Photo Challenge28 Comments

This week’s challenge comes from guest host Sue (Mac’s Girl) at The Nature of Things. She has asked us to feature hobbies or interests we have enjoyed over the years or something new we have discovered during this time of staying at home.

During this time of staying at home each day consists of a few of these activities: Reading, cooking, walking and photography. A major outing is an occasional grocery store run.

Reading

I’ve always loved to read and I have really enjoyed having the time to read more than usual. These days I get most of my books digitally from the local library and I often have four or five books on hold. My favorite recently read book is Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. As you can see from the next photo, I’ve just about worn out the cover for my IPad and my two favorite books have been read and reread many times.

20200414-chrysalis-day-5-(2) — My favorite place to read

Cooking

I’ve had a lot of time to spend cooking and baking during the shutdown. I’ve enjoyed using fresh produce from my favorite produce stand whenever I can.

20200414-chrysalis-day-5-(10) — Fresh produce from my favorite produce stand

Walking

Before the shut down I walked on the days I wasn’t going to water aerobics or going to the gym at the local YMCA. During the shut down my main exercise is walking. For a while the beach was closed and most walks were in my neighborhood. Now that the beach is open, I walk on the beach at least once a week.

20200521-north-beach-walk-(10) — Early morning surfer

20200521-north-beach-walk-(12) — Horseshoe Crab

Photography

I’m always looking for things to photograph. Recently my garden has been full of birds, butterflies, and blooms.

20200512-Hummingbirds-and-Female-Bunting-(40) — Ruby Female Throated Hummingbird

The Tybee Island Lighthouse is across the street from the parking lot for the beach. I was excited when I saw the flag flying Friday morning in honor of Memorial Day Weekend.

20200521-north-beach-walk-(21) — Honoring America’s fallen heroes for Memorial Day weekend

Please take a moment this Memorial Day Weekend to remember all of our fallen military heroes who gave their lives for our country.

Many thanks to guest host Sue (Mac’s Girl) for this weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Pastimes

Pairs of Monarch Caterpillars

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020Posted in Daily Prompt, Nature, PhotographyTagged blogging, Discover Prompts, monarch caterpillar, pairs16 Comments

We are in the middle of the butterfly breeding season. I’ve seen pairs of Monarch butterflies flying around our yard recently and the females have been laying their eggs on milkweed leaves in my small backyard butterfly garden.

This morning I counted seven caterpillars on the milkweed including two different pairs munching on the leaves.

20200409-monarch-caterpillars-(20) — Pair of Monarch Caterpillars on Milkweed

20200409-monarch-caterpillars-(1) — Pair of monarch caterpillars on milkweed

After about two weeks of eating, the caterpillar will be full grown and will make it’s crysalis. Approximately 10 days later the monarch butterfly will emerge.

This post was inspired by Discover Prompts Day 9 -Pairs.

Curve

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020Posted in Daily Prompt, PhotographyTagged blogging, curve, Discover Prompts6 Comments

For the Day 8 Discover Prompt Michelle chose curve. I browsed through my photo archives to find these curves in bodies of water we have seen during our travels.

20190517-Day-17-Glasgow-to-Inverness-Sony-(12) — On the road to Inverness, Scotland

20170514Boat-Ride-(9) — Creek through the Georgia Salt Marsh

20080604New-River-Gorge-(45) — The New River in West Virginia

Thelma and Louise drove into the Canyon at Dead Horse Point State Park — Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah

This post was inspired by Discover Prompts Day 8 – Curve.

Lens-Artists #91: Simplicity

April 6, 2020Posted in PhotographyTagged blogging, Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Simplicity, Spring Flowers20 Comments

This week Patti’s challenge is to show what Simplicity means to me.

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

After three weeks of social distancing I have really come to appreciate the simple things – a phone call with my brother who lives on the other side of the country, a video of one of our granddaughters, social distancing outside with neighbors, and enjoying the little things in nature.

Here are a few of the simple things that brought me joy this weekend.