http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA Travels and Journeys... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2010 heather@heatherdugan.com (Heather Dugan) heather@heatherdugan.com (Heather Dugan) 1440 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA 144 144 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?feed=podcast Footsteps Travels and Journeys... Travel, outdoors, adventure, Heather, Dugan, stories Heather Dugan Heather Dugan heather@heatherdugan.com no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/08/06/in-town-tourist-splashing-at-the-farm/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/08/06/in-town-tourist-splashing-at-the-farm/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:00:54 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?p=5563 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/08/06/in-town-tourist-splashing-at-the-farm/feed/ 4 0:00:38 ...We may have to settle for a fast fan or air conditioned office, but given the choice, I think most of us prefer to lean a little closer into a cooling spray. ...We may have to settle for a fast fan or air conditioned office, but given the choice, I think most of us prefer to lean a little closer into a cooling spray. Heather Dugan no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/07/30/just-add-water/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/07/30/just-add-water/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:27:31 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?p=5559 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/07/30/just-add-water/feed/ 5 0:01:11 ...Edging carefully up slate waterfalls and through canyon streams, swimming along the way in natural pools… those moist moments elevated extraordinary scenery into extraordinary experiences that grew us in new and delightfully freeing ways... ...Edging carefully up slate waterfalls and through canyon streams, swimming along the way in natural pools… those moist moments elevated extraordinary scenery into extraordinary experiences that grew us in new and delightfully freeing ways... Heather Dugan no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/07/14/in-town-tourist-inniswood-metro-park/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/07/14/in-town-tourist-inniswood-metro-park/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:45:05 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?p=5371 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2010/07/14/in-town-tourist-inniswood-metro-park/feed/ 10 0:02:00 Inniswood by contrast, sprawls with cultivated gardens, lush expanses of lawn and woods, and contains kid-friendly creative content such as a "secret garden", a farm (with a watering trough to splash around in) and a tree house playground. Inniswood by contrast, sprawls with cultivated gardens, lush expanses of lawn and woods, and contains kid-friendly creative content such as a "secret garden", a farm (with a watering trough to splash around in) and a tree house playground. Heather Dugan no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/09/21/in-town-tourist-secret-garden/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/09/21/in-town-tourist-secret-garden/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:04:25 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?p=2363 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/09/21/in-town-tourist-secret-garden/feed/ 11 0:00:57 Almost every child longs for a secret hiding place:  a tree fort, a clubhouse, a hidden hollow.  My hideaway was a dusty upper ledge in my bedroom closet.  My fantasy, however, was to have a secret garden as in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s cla[...] Almost every child longs for a secret hiding place:  a tree fort, a clubhouse, a hidden hollow.  My hideaway was a dusty upper ledge in my bedroom closet.  My fantasy, however, was to have a secret garden as in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story. If you wind through Inniswood Metro Park to its northern edge, and then go just a bit further through a child-sized trellised arbor, the fantasy takes form.  Crumbling brick and stone walls, inset with colored glass marbles and draped with vines, emerge as a “ruins” from a seemingly ordinary forest. Inside, trickling spigots and a rising mist elevate the mood to mystical.  Wall inscriptions and an iron bench invite lingering and just a bit of daydreaming. It may be my favorite spot in a remarkable park, where nature and the heart can truly intertwine. Heather Dugan no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/09/19/in-town-tourist-secrets-at-inniswood/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/09/19/in-town-tourist-secrets-at-inniswood/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:48:16 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?p=2294 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/09/19/in-town-tourist-secrets-at-inniswood/feed/ 9 0:00:39 It’s often the surprises that elevate a day from ordinary into something special.  Sometimes they come to us in a package or on two feet with a familiar smile. At other times we have to go find them. As many times as we’ve explored[...] It’s often the surprises that elevate a day from ordinary into something special.  Sometimes they come to us in a package or on two feet with a familiar smile. At other times we have to go find them. As many times as we’ve explored Inniswood Metro Park, it still retains the “just opened” sheen of a fresh gift of nature.  This time we followed the Story Path to its treasure: the legend’s hero (psst: not the lady, but the hard-working turtle beneath her). And just beyond -through a living tunnel of green, lies yet another surprise… Heather Dugan no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2007/07/22/in-town-tourists-inniswood-metro-gardens/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2007/07/22/in-town-tourists-inniswood-metro-gardens/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:32:26 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/taking-the-kids/in-town-tourists-inniswood-metro-gardens/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2007/07/22/in-town-tourists-inniswood-metro-gardens/feed/ 6