Author Archives: Chelsy Weber

It’s been COLD this winter. In a way that I haven’t experienced in recent years here in Maryland. January brought a big snow storm, snow days from school, and multiple days of temperatures in the teens and low 20s. That’s pretty cold for southern Maryland! The snow took a LONG time to melt, making myContinue reading “The Winter Woods”

I’ve written before on this blog about how I’m a believer in both big epic adventures (of which Maryland has so many) and in the practice of seeing the big and small beauty in our own backyards. This post is primarily about the latter. Early spring is a time of such beauty and new lifeContinue reading “Early Spring and Backyard Beauty”

The it’s-almost-spring-but-please-don’t-forget-it’s-still-winter weather of the last week reminded me of the uniqueness of our little corner of earth. I saw the caption “only in Maryland” multiple times on social media, paired with screen shots of the weather forecast – sunny and 70s for much of last week, then a windy weekend in the 50s, andContinue reading “The Beauty of the In-Between Season”

What could possibly be a more Maryland-y thing to do than a trip to Ocean City and Assateague Island? To the scores of Marylanders who spent their childhoods looking forward to beach weeks in OC, possibly nothing. I wasn’t one of those children, having not grown up here. And my family’s beach loyalties were aContinue reading “The Stormy Atlantic Skies: Ocean City and Assateague Island”