This Woman Wanders

Body-positive fat vegan conservation photographer with a passion for pyrex, cats, books and velociraptors striving to capture the beauty of our world before the zombie apocalypse brings about the collapse of civilization.

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Frontier Airlines GoWild Pass...The Journey So Far

I was away for about a month and just got home a couple of days ago.  Spoiler alert, I REALLY had to decompress after my last flight. I wanted to be in Tulsa on May 13 because my besties daughter was graduating.  Usually I would take several days to road trip with my dogs, but I couldn’t confirm I was actually going to attend because I had to find a placement for my foster dog. Just THREE? days…

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13 Years

On May 4, 2010 I was packing up my new-to-me 2005 Honda Element and heading out for my first ever solo road trip.  I remember standing in my driveway saying goodbye to my husband and him smiling and saying “You look terrified.  You will be fine.  And you will have an amazing time!” He was right.  I WAS terrified.  But I was also fine and that trip was the beginning of a series of incredible…

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Is This A Questionable Decision? Maybe..

If you’ve read some of my past entries, you’re probably know that I have significant anxiety.  Traveling has always involved trying to do scary things even though anxiety adds several layers of difficulty.  To combat my anxiety and still be able to see new places, I travel with my dogs, road-tripping (and often camping) in my fully stocked Honda Element.  Between stretching my comfort zones,…

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What Bird is this?

What Bird is this?

I photographed this bird back in the spring while I was in Colorado (Denver area).  I’ve been trying to identify it, but I could use some help. My first guess was a gray flycatcher, but I’m not sure.  These are my guesses: Gray Flycatcher Gray Vireo Least Flycatcher Say’s Phoebe Western Wood Peewee (probably not) Anyone know?

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Finally able to share photos again!

As usual, I’m slacking on posting things in order or in a timely manner, but after a bunch of hassle trying to get my photo editing software to work, I’m finally able to process photos again.  I had been hoping to continue using my old versions of Photoshop and Lightroom that I had purchased, but Adobe is no long providing updates for them and they were suddenly not reading my camera files- even…

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Slowly but surely...

Slowly but surely…

I’m working on loading the photo galleries here on This Woman Wanders after discontinuing the separate JLGould web site (you may have noticed that JLGould.com directs you to ThisWomanWanders.com now).  I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time, but I live at procrastination station and there were always 500 reasons not to do it just yet.  I’m working on myself, so the change is happening,…

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Our Own Private Waterfalls

Our Own Private Waterfalls

In my last post I described the adorable AirBnB two friends and I had rented for the week in West Virginia.  We’d booked it because the house was entirely our aesthetic, but we really had no idea what was in the area. After booking the place, we found out that the owner had another property, 30 minutes away in Virginia, that we would also be allowed access to.  Beaverdam Falls is a private 60…

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My camping set up!

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Guess who is on the road again?

The blog has been quiet while I’ve gone about life, taking short trips to visit friends and photograph a bit. But today is day 1 of a 6 week trip, so I’m jumping back into the blogosphere.

This morning started out home on the eastern shore of Maryland. Poe The Adventurer started off in a mood becauseI didn’t get him a puppaccino when I got my morning coffee. He doesn’t agree with this whole…

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From there to here

The short story for the day is that I drove from one side of Tennessee to the other.

The longer story is that Poe and I took a rather long time to drive from Kingsport, Tennessee to West Memphis, Arkansas (yes, Memphis is actually in two states! ).

The day started earlier than planned, thanks to my furry travel buddy with the smallish bladder. My morning mood decided that I was going to be on…

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Just a woman and her dog...

Just a woman and her dog…

Poe-the-dog and I are off on another road trip. Today we traveled from the eastern shore of Maryland, through Virginia and ended our day in Tennessee. It was a beautiful drive! Blue skies giving way to gorgeous storm clouds, pouring rain and back to blue skies. The rain clouds were the perfect vision of “heavy with rain” and “sheets of rain”.

(Excuse my poor photography…I took these thru my…

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Minnesota Hygge

hyg•ge

/ˈh(y)o͞oɡə,ˈho͝oɡə/ noun a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).

I’ve been enamored of the concept of hygge for some time now.  It’s something I try to embrace as much as possible through the long winter months, surrounding myself with books, a lit fireplace, warm…

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Last month I created a new Gallery at http://www.JLGould.com for monthly sales of up to 50% off.  I had thought to put 12 images in  the Gallery each month, as I did last month.  This month I started with 12 images; some were already on the web site and others were new. I then thought “Why not add lots more photos that may or may not end up on the web site after this month?”

I take a lot of photographs and many only ever get seen on Facebook or in a blog post or by only myself.  Maybe because I don’t know if they are good enough or would appeal to enough people.  For at least the month of February, though, many of these photographs will be available in the sale Gallery.

Its taking me a bit longer to get back in the habit of blogging my adventures.  It seems getting back into traveling and photographing was taking much of my available effort and time.  My computer is full of half edited photo galleries and half written blog entries.  I’ll get there, I promise!

In the meantime, here’s a little sneak peak of my wanderings through the Grayson Highlands of Virginia with my adventure buddy, Poe.  ❤

Sales and Travels and Photos, Oh My Last month I created a new Gallery at www.JLGould.com for monthly sales of up to 50% off. 

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Lots of new posts coming...

Lots of new posts coming…

I have so much work to process and stories to tell and places to share.  In the coming weeks you’ll get to hear all about, and see pictures of:

The Grayson Highlands of Virginia, where herds of wild ponies roam the mountains.

Fall in the Smoky Mountains…with rainbows!

New-to-me locations in Tennessee, including:

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

Frozen Head State Park

Obed Wild & Scenic River

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Bits of Winter In The Fall

Bits of Winter In The Fall

The seasons are a little off this year.  I went to Colorado expecting fall colors, but got mostly snow.  I wasn’t and am not complaining…it was just unexpected.

I’ve got my yearly trip  to the Smoky Mountains upcoming and the fall foliage reports are still reporting little to no color.  Do I change my plans, or do I go with the unexpected and take advantage?  I’m debating, but I don’t think there…

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And a new season begins!

And a new season begins!

I just returned from a very short trip to Colorado, but I packed a heck of a lot into those few short days!

I saw Colorado like I’ve never seen it before.  I’ve seen fall and I’ve seen winter, but I’ve never visited when the golden aspens were covered in snow.  The ever changing landscape of dusting and melting and freezing and re-dusting of snow made this magical landscape even more brilliant.

I…

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