The Second Hike

Summer is really starting to settle in and the Hoybooks are starting to settle into summer. And finally, Nebraska. It has been hard to admit, but the first couple of months here were tough on us. We miss the Northwest terribly and we especially miss it during summer. Summer in the Northwest is unlike any other place. We suffer through eight months of rain and clouds, it's that good. So when we left right at the beginning of that glorious time, I was pretty blue. And very mopey. I moped around our house here for the first couple of weeks--"there's nowhere to hike", "I want to go see a waterfall", etc.  But, it seems that we have turned a corner and it all started last weekend with our second official Midwest hike.

We headed back to the Hitchcock Nature Preserve in Iowa on a beautiful Saturday morning.