by Deonne Kahler | Dec 22, 2015 | Travel
I love this time of year. Long nights, crisp, cold air, lights everywhere – I take this time to reflect on the outgoing year and set intentions for the new year coming in. 2015 has been seriously up and down. The downs included six dear family members and...
by Deonne Kahler | Dec 15, 2015 | Travel
We’re getting lots of snow in Taos, which is a good thing, but I thought these images of Ocean Beach (San Diego, CA) from last year might help. You know, if you’re complaining about the cold, just a little. (Though now that I look at them again, they...
by Deonne Kahler | Dec 8, 2015 | Travel
Okay, not really. But since I was just in Nebraska and those animals featured in my visit, I couldn’t resist. Mom and I met at her cousin Delores’s place, where she lives with the titular animals as well as a donkey, some chickens, and her delightful...
by Deonne Kahler | Dec 2, 2015 | Travel
Remember how excited I was to go backpacking in Olympic National Park? Yeah. It didn’t happen. I’d been hiking and photographing all over the place, covering a lot of territory in Washington, and was all set with my gear and my permit, good for three...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 23, 2015 | Travel
Sometimes simple is best. At least that’s what I think the namers of Washington’s First Beach were thinking when they came up with that moniker. There’s also Second Beach. I imagine them being so proud of themselves, sitting around the table,...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 18, 2015 | Travel
Let’s start by getting all your jokes about the name out right now. I’ll go: If a tree falls in the rain forest, does a ho hear it? Ha ha! Hilarious! Okay, enough. The Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park is no laughing matter – except for the...
