The Hunter

Here is my traveling partner getting some great shots of a bald eagle that was sitting on the edge of Portage Lake. Check out the set of pics that she got on her flikr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbromley/6623047249/in/photostream/

they are great!

Happy Tuesday: Time to ride bikes.

-j

Daily Inspiration!

Man, in the midst of all of this studying, do I need inspiration today! This inspiration comes from C. Bromley.

More on how much I Love Old Baldy

This shot is of me, in one of my favorite places, Old Baldy. Doing what I love to do. I cannot wait until I can do this again. When my time to myself does not consist of making coffee, and posting quick blogs on here. Maybe second semester will be much easier, hopefully I will have time management and book briefing down pat. Hopefully I will get to make a trip up North.

And another:

Woohoo on the water!

Wait, scratch that! This is inspiration right? Well then, yes, yes it will be easier, Yes I will have the hang of it, and yes We will be taking more weekend trips Up North, why? For a few reasons: 1 no more wasted nights on intro class. 2 hopefully 3 days of class per week, and 3 a mastery of time management for law school!

Inspired indeed! This spring/ summer will be the best ever! We are going to kick butt!

Scratch that too! Today will be the best ever. I am going to smash this Contract law midterm right outta the park! And tomorrow, Crim, I have your number too! And this weekend, I am going to take on Adverse Possession with a vengeance.

So here is to today!

I hope yours is a little brighter after reading this post!

CHARGE ON!

-J

Prepping for some summer fun out in the boats! I am very excited to take these things out the first chance I get. If there was a safe way to get them out into Lake Michigan so that we could paddle up to the huge ice mountains on the shore that would be awesome. Maybe the best place to do this would be from a pier, it would probably be calmer in a channel.

Well, there you have it, today's inspiration; me, getting ready for some sunny paddlin'.

I am ready to work out!

-J

Summer is here, let's get this thing rolling!

Nation, Nation the summer is here and that means that the adventure is here!

Summer kicked off with our graduation from college. As you can see Chelsea embraced her outdoor roots even in the city by attempting to pet a mumma duck.

I was so proud of her, and it was an added bonus to get to see the President speak at her graduation.

A week after my graduation we made an impromptu trip to New Mexico to take some photos for the National Indian Health Board. The landscape was beautiful, but mostly very far off. Mountains appeared to be mirages in the distances. We took a walk from the hotel one day in an attempt to get to the base of one of the surrounding mountains, but fell short as they appeared to continually be ebbing away from us. However they were beautiful.

The trip was quick, but a much needed break. While the mountains above were appealing it was on the plane ride home where I snapped a few of my favorite pics.
This is the beautiful Lake Michigan with storm clouds above and flat seas below. Seeing the lake in such a picturesque setting reminded me how lucky we are to have been given this great source of life.

On our short flight from Chicago to Traverse City we flew over our hometown, and the most perfect inland lake ever, Portage.

While the quality of this photo is not the best it was fun too see the lake from above.

Safely on the ground, where humans clearly belong according to Chelsea's ears, we quickly moved on to our next adventure!