Jennifer Lawson

March in Maine is usually cold, snowy, rainy, sleety and gray and this relentless dreary weather usually lasts through most of April. Spring...

My dear old dad hasn't been very well lately, so off I went to California to help my family get him back on his feet. My parenst have be...

In my daypack I carried raingear, a lightweight parka, a camelback water bladder and an extra litre bottle of water, snacks, ...

Day 3— Shira Camp 2. A short hike acclimating to 12,000 ft. I got a very bad headache from the altitude, which forced me t...

Day 5— The long scramble climb up the steep Barranco Wall to Karanga Camp at 12,200 ft. Foggy, misty and cold. ...

Jambo everyone I started this adventure on January 9th in Moshi Tanzania. I met my 8 fellow treking/climbing companions who were 21-32 years...

I made it to the summit walking "slowly" or "pole pole" as they say in Swahili because the air is so thin. 6 1/2 hours s...

Today, I start my journey to Tanzania Africa to climb Mt. Kilimajaro. It is the highest freestanding mountain in the world and is 19,341 ft....

I spent Christmas visiting my family in the San Francisco Bay Area. My parents still live in the house I grew up in. They have lived there f...

Myrna posing with our sketches I was fortunate enough to meet up with an internet friend, the talented and accomplished artist and teacher, ...

Walking through the woods to the lake, there is a spot where the ground is covered with a thick soft layer of pines needles from a grove of ...

Every week I communte to Potomac Maryland for work. An hour plane ride and on a good day it is only 45 minutes from the Baltimore airport to...

I spent a weekend in the Belgrade Lakes Region in central Maine. Beautiful lakes dotted with cottages and surrounded by mountains to the nor...

Living in Maine has given me the opportunity to spend wonderful times hiking in the spectacular White Mountains of New Hampshire. One of my ...

My little white dog, Sophie, absolutely loves the beach, but has never had much of an inclination to go in the ocean or any other large body...

Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer. Here in Maine the days are still warm, but they are getting shorter and the sun is lower in the s...

Weston B. Haskell 111 1953-2011 My dear friend Sarah...

I spent 3 days in Lisbon before the Internationl Sketchers Symposium, sightseeing, sketching and eating the most delicious food. I happened ...