those long awaited photos

So this will be a post of mostly pictures. I've fallen behind--these are all from two weeks ago, but bear with me. Here are some canoes and ceder trees (ceders are my current favorite trees) at our first campsite.











This is Aryn with whom I co-lead this trip, and a lovely eerie sunset.









To the left, brooding storm clouds.





Directly below, a pleasant evening on Boot Lake is featured.





















And a glassy dusk.






Now for my love of the very small. I've been very drawn to tiny detail of late. From the overwhelming hugeness of those good old Colorado vistas, the theory is that I'm just balancing myself out. I hope you like them too. Still working on learning all the names, so look for them later. What a great place to learn botany. Biodiversity is just the best.

Starting her up

After graduating in a whirlwind from Goshen College at the end of April, I went on an amazing Anabaptist History tour in Europe with my college for three weeks, visiting France, Germany, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. I then traveled with my roommate of the past three years, th enchanting Emily "Muffinpants" Stuckey, for two weeks in the Republic of Ireland. Upon arriving back in the States, i spent a day repacking and then flew up to Minnisota, where i am currently, to work at Wilderness Wind, a camp in Ely that takes groups canoeing in the Boundary waters. After a week of orientation on the water with the 8 other wonderful members of staff, the first three groups arrived. I co-lead a group with Aryn; she and I made a smashing duo, dealing with new routes, unexpected rapids, inclement weather and a new system of bear bags and coming out on top. also discovered a love for botany, i'm working on memorizing tree names and tiny flowers and lichens and fungi and having a ball. look for pictures soon.