Here I am!

A brief (and very late) introduction...

When I started this blog back in early spring, I wasn't sure what to write. I'm starting to get some ideas (finally.) As I said in my first post, I was a bit hesitant to post personal information on the internet. Apparently, I'm one of very few who feel that way. Most people reveal quite a bit about themselves on their websites & blogs.

Having said that, I've decided it's time to take the leap and start sharing! Let's start with a photo. This was taken of me just a few days ago.

If you viewed my profile, you might have noticed that I recently celebrated (that's not quite the word I would use) a birthday. On August 23, I turned 45 years young.

This wasn't much of an introduction, but there'll be more information soon. In the meantime, you can check out a website that I started in 2000. It was crudely thrown together, and I never got around to finishing it. I'm really surprised that geocities kept this site up after 5 years of its being inactive.

When you check out my site, you'll see that photography is a big interest of mine. I posted some pictures that I took around Massachusetts, including several colorful autumn scenes.

This website can only be viewed with Internet Explorer browser.

http://www.geocities.com/margie1464

Thanks for stopping by!
Margie

Sarah, Leading the Way Along the Franconia Ridge

August 27, 2005

Here's Sarah leading the way along the Franconia Ridge Trail. We had just left the summit of Mt. Lafayette. What a spectacular view!

Mt. Lafayette & The Franconia Ridge Trail are part of the Appalachian Trail.

http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.asp?trailid=HGN127-008

Greenleaf Hut

This is the photo I took of Greenleaf Hut. After taking this, we started our ascent of Mt. Lafayette.

Website about Greenleaf Hut:

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/green_hut.html

Mt. Lafayette--Range of Mountains

August 27, 2005

Mt. Lafayette

OOPS! I'm not entirely sure what range this is, but considering this photo was in my camera right after the Mt. Lafayette one, it seems safe to assume that we are looking at the same range. If that's correct, then the larger mountain on the center-left is Mt. Lafayette. (I'll ask my knowledgeable "mountain guide" Sarah.)

When Sarah and I hiked, we reached the summit of Mt. Lafayette, then trudged rightwards for Mt. Lincoln & Little Haystack (Well, we both didn't "trudge"--I plodded, dragged, crawled; she skipped, hopped & energetically bounced forward. Can I blame this on my age? If anyone has a good excuse for me, I'd appreciate your passing it my way!)

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The following link brings you to a great site that describes the trail Sarah and I took, and the mountains upon which we ascended (& and, of course...descended.)

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/lafayette.html

Mt. Lafayette, as seen from Greenleaf Hut

August 27, 2005

I took this photo of Mt. Lafayette while I was resting and having lunch at Greenleaf Hut.

(Being a novice at hiking, this was the first I had heard of the Appalachian Trail Mountain Club's "huts". The idea of it intrigued me. My intentions are to write a separate blog post about them, but, you know how intentions can go!)

I took a photo of Greenleaf Hut from a short distance away, and will upload that here on a separate post.

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More about Greenleaf Hut & the AMC's huts in general:

http://www.outdoors.org/lodging/huts/huts-greenleaf.cfm

Hiking up Mt. Lafayette

August 27, 2005

Recently, I went hiking in the mountains in New Hampshire with my daughter, Sarah. Although she has done this quite a bit (which was apparent to me by her knowledge and the experience she exhibited while we were involved in the hike), this was actually my first time hiking.

Of course, since photography is my passion, I lugged several cameras along up the mountains with me (I would have left my WATER behind first--I DO have my priorities, you know!)

Since I live just a few hours away from these mountains, I have been there many times throughout my life, so I have plenty of photos of the scenery from that beautiful area. But being on the trails gave me new vantage points from which to capture "fresh" scenes.

Here are just a few of the 60 or so images that I photographed of our adventure from that day.