Holly, the Getting to Know You hostess this week, says: Children today don't get a chance to explore nature as in the past. The thought made me shudder and terrified me that children aren't encouraged to explore the world around them. My questions to you today are:

1) What are some of your memories about the "great outdoors?" (games played outside, camping, hiking, bike riding, running in the rain)

Many of my best memories involve spending time down the cape with my cousin. We'd ride our bikes, go to the beach, swim, lay in the sun! I also went camping a few times as a kid, once to Bar Harbor, ME, another time to a campground in PA, where I fell in love with a beautiful palomino horse. At home, in the summertime, I'd play games with the neighborhood kids: 1-2-3 Red Light, hide & seek, dodge ball, Mother, may I?, and always, always riding my bike!

2) Do you spend a lot of time in the outdoors, or have you lost touch with nature? If you've lost touch with it, how could you incorporate more of the outdoors in your every day life or would you want to?

I take my dogs for long walks in the woods on the weekends in the spring and summer, and to the beach in the fall and winter. It's a good 45 minute walk thru the trails at the woods, and I love it! My camera often comes along as well, so I can snap pictures of whatever catches my eye. I also have a garden, and actually enjoy mowing the lawn :-)

3) What small thing can you do (or are you doing) to ensure that the earth and all it's bounty will be here for future generations?

Recycle!

4) Can you share one or two links that showcase the great outdoors or some way to help heal the earth?

MA State Parks - There are some great places to hike, bike & camp in MA!

An Inconvenient Truth - One of the best movies I've ever seen!

5) Feel free to share a picture of you in your environment, enjoying the outdoors and just plain having fun.

Here's four shots of New England in all her glory:

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

Ahhh... the glory of New England in her four seasons. One of the things I miss most.

Thank you so much for sharing those beautiful photographs. I love the winter one.

Wishing you and yours health, balance and joy.

Be well and enjoy the day.

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Ha, I had forgotten about 1-2-3 Red Light and Mother May I! What fun! Love the photos, especially the winter shot.

I love the picutre of winter! It must me wishing for cooler weather. thanks!

so true, kids dont appreciate the outdoors....when we were younger we were outside ALL the time......and I loved it!

computers, video games etc have RUINED the younger generations

great pics

Those four-seasons photos are fabulous!

Love all the pics of the seasons!!

*This* visit to your site is sponsored by Michele :)

The autumn picture is adorable. I love the dog.

My favorite outdoor memories include rollerskating down a ramp in a park that did a 45-degree turn over a bridge.

Oh, and the beach, of course.

I miss my bike with the groovy banana seat! We would ride for hours, going nowhere at all.

I love the picture of snow even though I hate winter. LOL

Hmmmmm. That winter picture looks familiar!

I so completely wish I lived in New England. I was never far away when I was a kid: Montreal was barely an hour's drive from upstate New York. There's something about the environment and the people in NE that is beyond special.

Happy sigh...

Great pics. I used to ride my bike all the time too. I remember Cornwall and Wales as being "the great outdoors" when I was a kid. And catching the bus into town to catch the ferry across the Mersey.

When I was a teenager we use to go to North Truro on the Cape every summer for two weeks. Our neighbor would take the cottage for one week and my parents would take it for the second week that way we kids could stay up there for two weeks and the parents got a weeks vacation from the kids. Now I go up there every October for a week.

You asked about my Prius; when I drove down to Washington DC I averaged slightly over 50 mpg and this is actually my second Prius, I bought my first one in '73

those are lovely pics! I agree that Inconvenient Truth is one of the best movies - it's so important! I wish more people would recycle. it's so easy and yet so effective~