• Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again

    I Especially Loved: It was intentionally a moon hike and I was excited about that.

    Favorite Picture: The sunset (I would have guessed the moon, and I did love that too). The warm colors of the sunset photos really appealed to me.

  • Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again

    I Especially Loved: The abandoned camp, all the fantastic fungi, it was a really fun hike with lots of color to look at.

    Favorite Picture: Another almost impossible to choose bunch, but a tree with the perfect arms will always come out on top for me.

  • Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again – Weekday Evening Edition

    I Especially Loved: The changing scenery and lighting of an early fall evening hike

    Favorite Picture: The videos, I love the night sounds.

  • Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again

    I Especially Loved: I love how old Matthiesen is, all the remnants, the old bridges and stairs. It’s also the site of the Atticus’s Mom moment and I always think of that, every time 🙂

    Favorite Picture: I can’t decide between the into the woods picture that’s so green, the narrowing bridge shot, the spider…oh and the waterfall video. Total favorite fail 🙂

  • Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again

    I Especially Loved: The totally different feel and perspective of a prairie as opposed to the woods.

    Favorite Picture: Almost impossible to choose. The solar halo and the yellow thistle against the flat gray background are a top two. All the florals were so pretty as well.

  • Shades State Park 8/22/26

    Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again

    I Especially Loved: The new to me location and hearing about how rugged and challenging it was.

    Favorite Picture: A video this time, the one with the running water, it’s all neutrals so the sole green and yellow leaf stands out so well.

  • Choices

    I once wrote:

    “Still, in the end, I always seem to choose you and us. Even when I try and distance myself from us and think logically. Even when I have serious doubts about the logistics, equality, or fairness of this, I choose you.”

    Yesterday it happened again. We’d been apart for so long, it’s been a long, unfair, lonely journey for us both. I’d steeled myself yesterday, as I always do, for the eventuality that at some point it may be the last time I see you, for whatever reason.

    Then I did see you. I can’t explain what the feeling is in words. It’s instant, it’s consuming, it feels like the color white, it’s surrounded by a bright light, it makes my mind ease, and my muscles relax. All the doubts, for myself and for you, vanish. It happens every single time. I’m left calm, secure, and happy, always wishing I never had to leave this feeling. This time that pure happiness, that feeling, I can see in the pictures of us. I see in those pictures that not only do I choose you every time, and you choose me too.

  • Jason’s Hikes I Go On Through Photos Until I Can Hike Again

    I Especially Loved: All the water on this hike.

    Favorite Picture: Looking up at the bridge with the waterfall