One of the things my husband and I enjoy at the coast is hiking amid big trees, so our visit to Hidden Groves was a highlight for us. We’ve been to the redwoods, and these are nowhere near as large, but they’re bigger than the trees around home!
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Such wonderful pictures. It all looks so peaceful.
Hi Valerie! Thanks for sharing your hiking experiences. Due to warmer than normal temperatures in Michigan, one reason I have not hiked is TICKS and lyme disease. We live close to a ravine and had to be careful of deer and wildlife that at times wander through the neighborhood. So does Canada in the NW have a problem? You are dressed appropriately with long sleeves and long pants. Best wishes and enjoy your summer.
wonderful pictures. Especially the last one. Our family went to the redwoods many times when I lived in CA. They are majestic. And during the winter my parents along with friends would ski among the redwoods.
Happy Thanksgiving Valerie and all Canadian readers. Enjoy your long weekend. Best wishes and enjoy your SUNDAY (not summer). Been an overcast and rainy week in Michigan.
Lori – I’m curious exactly where your parents skied among the redwoods?? I live in California and I don’t know of any place where you can do that.
Beautiful pics! Happy Thanksgiving,,!!!
Love your pics!! I like to walk, hiking isn’t bad, either, and Florida is flat, so it’s easier than where you are! lol!!
Such beautiful pictures! It would be a long journey for me to be that healthy so as to be out hiking. You know how they say sitting is the new smoking? Well, I have a 5-pack-a-day sitting habit. :-)
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It truly was!
We do have a tick problem out here, too. Maybe not as bad, but any ticks at all are too many! I do often hike in sandals, shorts, and tanks, but the weather on the coast in September (at least any time we’ve gone) is too cool for that.
Thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes! We have SO MUCH to be thankful for!
We’ve loved seeing the coastal redwoods twice. In November 2019 we drove to a conference in Las Vegas and came back through the central valley then over to the coast at Eureka. We were so tempted to veer off into the sequoias but we simply couldn’t carve another day out of our return trip! We have friends in Reno, so maybe (if the border ever reopens!) we’ll get another chance…
Thank you!
I could use a Gulf of Mexico shell-collecting wander about now! But I agree, the parts of Florida I’ve seen were not exactly HIKEable!
I value exploring the outdoors SO MUCH that I did my best to get back into shape after my Oct 2017 heart attack. I’m slower than I was, for sure, but this fall hubby’s favoring his right hip, so he can’t get too far ahead of me LOL. We were at the condo six days and hiked for four of them. The other two were nothing but rain so our “hiking” was from one souvenir store to the next, haha.
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Congratulations to all the winners. Sounds like a lot of fun. Have a great Sunday and stay safe.
Wonderful pictures! They make me think of epic quests in fantasy landscapes. But that could be because I’m reading The Hobbit with my children right now. :-) Happy Thanksgiving!
Hubby and I went to the Redwood forest in California a few years back (2014?). What a lovely area, I’ve never seen trees so big before!! I took a picture of my husband driving through the tree they have there for that purpose…it was so cool! We enjoyed exploring every nook and cranny we could and would love to go back there again someday.
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Lovely pictures! Would love to go hiking there for sure :) #someday
Love the photos. Blessings
Congratulations to the winners! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful pictures. God bless you.
Lovely photos!
Congratulations to the winners!
Love the photos!!!
Enjoying your books & pictures
I like your books & pictures
Lovely photos looks so peaceful
Looks like a beautiful place for hiking.
Sure was!
High fives all around!
You, too! Thanks.
There’s definitely a fantasy-esque feeling in big woods like that!
Ah, we visited one of those trees in 2019! But we happen to like our truck mirrors still attached, so drove around instead of through.
It was beautiful.
Thanks!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Thank you!
Yay, so glad!
LOL! We had our little Kia Soul and pulled the mirrors in so we didn’t risk doing just that. Though in reality, the car was small enough :-)
Aw, thank you!
It truly was :)
ROTFL!!!
If we’d been in our Jetta, we’d have gone for it, but… ;)
Yeah if we’d have had the Jetta, we’d have done it, but the truck is just a little wider and taller plus mirrors and… no!
Forest looks like a fairy tale place. Beautiful!
You’re not wrong about the fairy-tale vibe!