Today was the annual holiday expo in the Mexico, NY area, hosted by the kind people at Yogi Bear's Campground and assembled by our dear friends Marcia and Jeff. The event is always a good opportunity to catch up with friends. It also marks our first chance to try out the new products we are considering for release during the holiday season. Throughout the day I captured a few shots to share the event with all of you.

Gear all packed up and ready to go:

Leaving the "big" city for rural Mexico, NY:

A quick stop at WallyWorld for some forgotten display table items:

Almost there:

A warm welcome from Yogi Bear!

The campground offices:

Ready for any emergency!

Products from other vendors:

Still keeping with a close-to-home weekend, we ventured only as far as the Lake Ontario shoreline; a trip of about a mile. It looked cold and windy but was actually quite pleasant. And as always, the lake provides something fascinating and wonderful to watch.

It's just been one of those days. Instead of the up-at-sunrise, Subaru/Harley-ride-to-the-horizon kind of days it was just one of those stay-indoors-doing-nothing kind of days. It felt good.

The big walkabout came this evening with a trip to Dunkin Donuts for coffee. Regardless, it is always an adventure of some sort!

The Southern shores of Lake Ontario located along the Northern edge of New York State, provide some of the most spectacular sunsets in the world! We are fortunate to live where we may experience them daily. They are always inspirational and they afford us regular opportunities to take small walkabouts right in our own back yard.

Looking for a way to catch a small ray of light in your day? Check out this article about Two of Us, a simple way to deliver and receive a smile from a stranger. And really, who couldn't benefit from that? Some interesting facial recognition technologies will help to make sure you are actually smiling!

Once you've read through the article, check it out for yourself at http://2uv.us/ and have a few moments of fun in your day!

Steven

The Subaru is, for us, the ultimate walkabout companion: Trusty, helpful, versatile, and comfortable! Sharing a look into one of our personal spaces for your entertainment (and desktop screen, blog post, or other personal use)!

Feel free to make use of this for your desktop screen, blog post, or other personal (non-commercial) use. Add your photos to the Walkabout Chronicles flickr pool! Most of Steven’s photography is available for purchase at http://StevenTryon.com.

Steven

This pond sits between my apartment and my place of work, forcing me to pass it twice a day in the car or on the bike. It continues to haunt me as I am never satisfied with the photographs I capture of it. But I keep trying. Sharing for your enjoyment, desktop screen, or other personal use. Enjoy!

Feel free to make use of these for your desktop screen, blog post, or other personal (non-commercial) use. Add your photos to the Walkabout Chronicles flickr pool! Most of Steven’s photography is available for purchase at http://StevenTryon.com.

Steven

If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. ~Rabindranath Tagore

We explore the world around us to extend and expand our relationship with it. Like any relationship, it requires attention, focus, presence, respect and love. This connection we seek with our world is what inspires us to jump in the car and just go every chance we get. We do not need a particular destination for these adventures. Our palace is everywhere.

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There is a great deal of focus and online discussion these days about the idea of minimalism. The notion of minimalism originated as a way to describe movements in art and music where the artist focuses on simplicity and only the most essential features of the work. Today it is more likely to be associated with a way of being that focuses on living with only what we need.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hoffman

We believe the origin of this term is still describing the same thing, a movement in art. Each day and every experience is our blank canvas, an opportunity to create our life. We can choose to do this with simplicity and clarity, focusing on only what we need. Joshua Becker, of the web site, Becoming Minimalist, describes it in this way:

Minimalism …is marked by clarity, purpose and intentionality. At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it. It is a life that forces intentionality. And as a result, it forces improvements in almost all aspects of your life. (Read his full article “What is Minimalism”.)

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Compiled by Liane Benedict

“There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
~ Johnny Depp
(Thanks to My Smiling Heart for sharing this quote!)

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
~ Thomas Carlyle

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