Exploring...

Well, I decided that I've missed this, so here I am, back again for another exciting post. I had the craziest thing happen to me, a dear friend and excellent storm chaser invited me to go on a Plains Chase event with her for an all woman chase... sigh. No annual leave left after a couple of days here and a couple of days there, so I am missing out... Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful time with my dear loved ones during the course of my mini-cations, but now, as I ponder Peg and Mel... Jess and Jenn and the author, Jenna Blum, ironically of the book I happen to be reading right now thanks to another dear friend seeing it and seeing my name all over it... Storm Chasers... go figure... oops, got off track... where was I?? Oh, as I ponder them (minus Jenn and Jess - who are in the same boat as me) out there in the plains, my heart sinks... and I feel a longing. It's all right though, Jenn and I are already on a mission to stock-pile leave and be ready for next year! Even if it's just the 2 of us, we will be in the plains together, chasin' us some naders. Work is always getting in the way... I won't focus on the fact that for today, tomorrow and Friday (while I would have been out there) there is a slight risk planted right there in prime chasing territory, in the same spot for all three days... how crazy is that?! I'll just keep my sites set on next year.

I do want to quickly share with you something my wonderful groom and I stumbled upon while on one of our fabulous lunch adventures yesterday. We like to find roads and "like-roads" that we've yet to explore and well... explore them. We did just that, found a dirt road that led to a path clearly laid out for us (not really, but we pretended), and we took it to see where it would lead us. It led us through the woods, where we just looked to see what we can find. We ended up finding a train, a pod plant, a dragonfly, a gopher turtle/rattlesnake hole or two, AND some exotic flowers. Well, color me happy. Check out this one, which has now been identified as a Maypop Vine, Passion Flower Vine - Passiflora incarnata.


Isn't nature awesome?! Go explore.
~Dewdrop

A dream come true!!!

I know... you're like... Whoa! Dew's posting something in her blog! I know, I know. It's been a while. I know... there are no excuses. Well, I Have some exciting news! I fulfilled a 25 year old dream today!!! How many people can see that?! How many people have 25 year old dreams? Well, mine is actually 25 years, 3 months and 18 days old. You see, when I was a little girl, I sat with my class and watched in awe and devastation as the Space Shuttle Challenger launched into the sky, only to meet a tragic end with so many people watching in utter horror. That day, strange as it probably sounds, a seed was planted deep within me... a seed which branched out taking many forms... first, I wanted to become an astronaut, went so far as applying and being accepted at Georgia Tech into the Aerospace Engineering Program. Well, that didn't quite end up happening. I am just an accountant. The other dream, a more obtainable, yet till just today (25 years, 3 months and 18 days later) that dream reached a point of fruition, after countless scrubs, after sweeping Kennedy Space Center, after listening to my wonderful groom watch, after missing chances because the timing was all wrong, I finally witnessed (at a relatively close distance) the Space Shuttle Endeavor launch triumphantly blast into space, well... into a bed of frustratingly thick altocumulus clouds, but I saw it happen!!! I heard the rumble. I felt the shake. I am awed beyond words.Have a bright day!!
~Dewdrop