A Life Deliberate

This blog chronicles my New Year's resolution to reconnect with the great outdoors. Welcome, wanderers - friends - strangers!

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Happy National Get Outdoors Day! Participants from federal agencies, nonprofit organizations and the recreation industry are again teaming up to host the 7th annual National Get Outdoors Day to encourage healthy, active outdoor fun at sites across the nation. Today these diverse partners will offer opportunities for American families to experience traditional and non-traditional types of outdoor activities. Prime goals of the day are reaching currently underserved populations and first-time visitors to public lands, and reconnecting our youth to the great outdoors. To learn more about events in your area today, visit http://www.nationalgetoutdoorsday.org/. Photo from Lake Mead National Recreation Area by Cheryl Hobbs (www.sharetheexperience.org)

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It’s goat grazing time! Over 400 goats at the Bozeman Fish Technology Center in Montana are helping to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth.  The cooperative effort with partners, including the Montana Outdoor Science School and Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology, will help reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation (without using chemical herbicides), assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass and promote the restoration of native plants.  See all the photos and a super looking great pyrenees helper: http://on.fb.me/1q0zHbE Photo: Goats at Bozeman Fish Technology Center. (Eli Cureton/USFWS)

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The latest music issue of Void Magazine just dropped. Grab yourself a copy (it’s FREE!) and check out page 24 for a write up on local band Civil Brute with an accompanying photo by yours truly!

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This May/June issue of Arbus magazine is still on the stands in North Florida. It’s theme is Art and Architecture and it features a full page ad I designed for my office, ELM. Be sure to grab a copy if you see it (it’s FREE!)

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Trying my hand at container gardening! Let's hope I have a green thumb! This handsome guy is a Pimento pepper (needs stakes), which I planted earlier today. This new lil' hobby should definitely get me outside more.

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A Long Walk to Open Water, Ga - #4381

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Happy World Turtle Day! Meet the bog turtle. It is one of the smallest, rarest turtles in North America. Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Pennsylvania was established in part to protect the federally threatened bog turtle, which can be found in wetlands throughout the valley. Due to their listed status, refuge public use areas are located away from sensitive bog turtle habitats.  See what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is doing to protect this little one and its bog wetland habitat: http://1.usa.gov/1o6jyRl Photo: usfws

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It’s #worldturtleday, let’s shellebrate!

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Belated but relevant!

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Lucius - Two Of Us On The Run

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Good hiking jam.

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Until We Get There - Lucius

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More geocaching! I made my first find!

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A new activity to get me out of the in-doors! I just started today and I’m hooked! I…haven’t found any yet, but it’s the journey, not the destination. Haha.

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I caught some rays yesterday after work! This was the view from my towel.

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Sometimes you need to stop and smell the flowers and take in the amazing view from the Sun Road in Glacier National Park. Photo: Shan Lin (www.sharetheexperience.org)

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Worth a rebloog

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May is National Wetlands Month, including these salt marshes at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, DE. Dominated by grasses where rivers meet the sea, salt marshes are regularly flooded by salty tidal water. They rival tropical forests and cornfields as rich, highly productive ecosystems.  Photo: Tim Williams, USFWS

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A reason to smile!

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Some of the best dark sky photography happens on America’s public lands. This photo from Joshua Tree National Park by Manish Mamtani is a perfect example.