Category: Outdoors

• 3 Simple and Life-Affirming Habits That Have Changed My Life

  

  While changing long standing habits takes time and can be difficult, I know from experience how transformative the process can be. Learning how to release destructive habit patterns and adopt constructive, empowering, life-affirming habits has changed my life.

• Phase Transition Affirmations (A prayer/poem/spell, etc.)

  

  I original wrote and posted this to my Instagram August 2021 but it feels particularly appropriate to revisit these words as we transition into spring…

• Sunrise yoga overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca

  

  This was a spontaneous and candid recording filmed outside the tent just after sunrise. No yoga mat or props… hoodie, wool cap, boots, grass, rocks and all.

• Gray Rabbitbrush and Lupine in June

  

  Gray Rabbitbrush looks like wild sage paintbrushes loaded up densely with vibrant sunshine-colored pigments and left out in the sun to dry. Not to be outdone, stunning bluish-purple lupine putting on quite a show as well…

• Achillea millefolium – Common yarrow

  

  One of my favorite pastimes is to identify plants from photos I’ve taken while hiking. Some plants are common and easy to identify; the yarrow pictured above for example.

• Chicken pesto and a skirted twirl

  

  We packed a cold chicken pesto sandwich, a greek salad, and a couple of bottles of kombucha from the Tonasket Natural Foods Co-op into a lunchbox for just the right moment to pullover and pop the trunk for lunch. I’ve eaten lots of fancy foods in very nice restaurants over the years, but these humble…

• Fiddlenecks in early June // Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest

  

  Some photos I captured on a walk earlier this month of a plant I was able to later identify as a type of Amsinckia, commonly known as Fiddlenecks.

• Summer Solstice

  

  An excerpt from Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day which I found especially fitting this morning and wanted to share with you: I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle…

• Lupine // Okanogan Highlands

  

  Lupine photographed at the top of Strawberry Mountain in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, June 2, 2021

• I choose joy

  

  Today, tomorrow and forever: I’m choosing to build a life of abundance, centered around deep gratitude and shared joy. Rest, rise, rinse, repeat. Bless! EK

• LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA in Spring

  

  The snow has melted, the hot sun is making regular appearances again, and wouldn’t you know it, this Tulip Tree is now in full spring bloom.

• Cold and accomplished – first camping trip of the season

  

  Long before I opened my eyes to the calm blue light of tent walls dotted with sunlit glassy raindrops, the honking of geese overhead stirred me to consciousness and a sleepy smile spread across my slightly chapped lips. These early morning moments are what I camp for. Waking up in a tent to the smell…