• Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 6.9.2013

    Outside my window…is a typical summer morning in Southeast Virginia.  I know it isn’t officially summer yet ~ but it certainly feels like it outside this past weekend.  Right now, at around 10:00 this morning, we are at 79°F with a 71% humidity so it feels like 81°F.  Skies are partly cloudy but I like to think of it as more like filtered sun.  There is plenty of sunshine out however there is a definite haze in the air which gives it that filtered look.  Our forecast high for the day is 84°F….but will probably feel closer to 90° when you factor in the humidity.  There has been plenty of…

  • Road Trips

    Scenes From Our Hike

    Today we went shopping and out to eat in Charlotte, North Carolina.  It has been a long day so I’m going to feature a couple of photos from our hike yesterday……. We had just been talking about the lack of any bird or squirrel’s nests in the area and decided it was because the eagles nest was in these woods.  Not too long after that, we noticed a rather ragged looking squirrels nest….which turned out to be not so far from the eagles nest.  Once we saw the proximity of the squirrels nest to the eagles….we figured out why it was so ragged looking….possibly ravaged by the eagle searching for…