A recap of 2025.

12/30/2025 I was sure I would make it out again before the end of the year. At the beginning of this month, we were gearing up for snow storms and colder weather. I planned to get out. The weather turned bitter, though, and then the snow turned to rain. The holidays moved in... time passed quickly. I wrapped up work early one Friday at the start of the month and headed up to Kankakee Sands. It is a long drive up. The weather was sunny and clear down here in Indianapolis. As I moved...

7/14/2025 It has been a few days, and it is still all I think about. On the 11th, I was treated to my first real Aurora Borealis. I was so excited. I do not even know how to express it. If I am being totally honest, this is not exactly my first. As kids, like 7 or so - young enough my parents were still together, I remember a night where the sky was totally red. I had no idea what it meant then or what it was even called. It was just late for us to be up, and we were all in the front...