Back For An Update

I'm back online, at least for this post. I really wanted to come back and leave a few comments on some of your blogs first, but I'm still very limited on time right now. I'll have to try to catch up with everything when I'm able to be back permanently. Things are really bad for my dad, so he'll be taking up most of my time for awhile more. I wish I could say that he is going to get better.

Let's move on to more positive things.

Does the picture above help you guess where I am? I took this picture of a teepee decoration at a rest area near me. The rest area is in South Dakota, not too far across the border from north-west Iowa where I am now. My stepmother showed it to me. She's actually a member of one of the nearby Native American tribes. I told her this teepee would be one of the first pictures I'd take, and here it is.

So right now I'm a few states away from Michigan, but that doesn't mean I won't be visiting nature parks anymore. There are nature parks everywhere in the US. And so the first thing I did was to find one that I want to explore extensively.

The picture above shows the driveway leading up to the first nature park I've visited. This is not only the first one I found when I got here, but it really is the first nature park I ever visited. It was this nature park that I found while on vacation several years ago that inspired my love of nature. I'll tell you more about it in a future post.

This bridge leads to places I've never explored before. When I came here for the very first time I went halfway across the bridge and turned back. this time I crossed it and followed the trail quite a bit farther. Still just a short hike, but I'll definitely be back for more exploration. I have many adventures ahead of me here.

I think that will be it for now. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still here. I'm not sure when my next post will be because I'm so very busy right now. I'll try to make it soon. In the meantime, go over to Nature Center Magazine where Emma has been keeping the site alive. Thanks Emma. And thanks to everyone for your thoughts and comments.


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Taking Some Time Off

Many of you have noticed that I haven't been active here or on other blogs for about a week. This is because I've been very busy, and things are only going to get busier for me for a little while. My dad is very sick, and he needs me to take care of him for awhile. This involves me temporarily moving to another state. I may even move there permanently.

And for the foreseeable future I will be offline. I don't know for sure how long it's going to take, but I hope to get everything situated and be back here online in about a month. Right now I'm not at all sure what is going to happen. But one way or another I'll be back here posting again as soon as I can. Until then there are links to some excellent nature blogs in my sidebar.

Nature Center Magazine will also be temporarily shutting down after the end of this week. So keep reading there this week. Copas and Emma volunteered to keep that site going but I just can't properly administer it. It's possible I can fix it so they can be back a little sooner than I will, so keep watching for their posts.

Rat Tales will not be effected by any of this except that I will not be able to answer comments there or return any visits. I currently have an episodic story there called "A Haunted Soul", and it will continue as scheduled. I hope to be back by the time the last episode is posted. So leave me plenty of comments there. :)

It has been almost exactly a year since the car accident that slowed my blogging down, and I have never really fully recovered from that. So it has not been a good year for me. The whole time has given me a life of instability. I'm hoping that after this next month I will know a little more about what the future holds. Maybe I'll even come back as strong as ever.

Thanks to all of you who read this site and the others, and especially to those of you who like to leave me comments. I hope you all come back when I finally am abler to post again. I hope to be back in a month.