Steve and Melissa's Blog

AT 2008

2009-04-15T01:05:00.004-04:00

Pictures from our 2008 Appalachian Trail hike with John and Jackie. Melissa and I did about 51 miles.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/AT2008?authkey=Gv1sRgCKXu6sr5_uTmZA#

2009-04-11T11:18:00.000-04:00

Spring

2009-04-11T11:16:00.004-04:00

A fat robin from our walk at Lake Johnson today.
More spring pics can be seen at
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/040309?authkey=Gv1sRgCIOUnM399ZTRZA#

Spring 2008

2008-04-03T12:23:00.004-04:00

Spring is officially here. We've planted a small garden beside our house.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/Spring2008?authkey=szUsC1y66pQ

Jones Lake State Park

2008-04-03T12:14:00.003-04:00

Melissa and I went to Jones Lake State Park recently. We did a nice 5 mile hike around the lake with the dogs. The lake is a Carolina Bay with cypress trees around the edge. Below is a link to more photos.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/JonesLakeStatePark?authkey=rKT6x0TLcF4

Christmas in Maine

2007-12-29T12:36:00.000-05:00

Melissa and I spent Christmas in Maine with her family. We had a really good trip, with pretty good weather. There was snow on the ground, but the roads were clear.

Here is a link to some more photos from our trip.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/MaineChristmas2007?authkey=Uo9QQc02he8

Mattamuskeet

2007-11-24T14:29:00.001-05:00

I went on a class field trip to Hyde County to observe wildlife. We saw 17 deer in about three hours on the stand we were in. One other group said they saw black bears, another group said they saw red wolves. Below is a link to more photos. Some of them are kinda graphic, showing a harvested deer being processed.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/MattamuskeetVentures?authkey=14uyHIIHCXk

Weymouth Woods

2007-09-22T21:34:00.000-04:00

My Principles of Wildlife Science class took a trip to Weymouth Woods to see the mature pine forest habitat that the red-cockaded woodpecker prefers.
We didn't see any RCWs, but we saw salamanders, a beaver dam, the various stages of the successional pine forests and a fox squirrel.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/WeymouthWoods?authkey=S6t7sPnX64M

Mount Rogers

2007-07-12T13:11:00.000-04:00

Melissa and I took the dogs camping in the Mount Rogers National Recreation area. We camped one night in the Beartree campground and got seriously rained out. The next morning we packed up and drove over to the Appalachian Trail and did some hiking. We got locked in the parking lot when the visitors center closed but I drove around the fence on the side of the road and we got out. We ran into a guy who was hiking the entire AT so we took him into town and he got some pizza and Pepsi after his 20-mile hike in the rain.

Here's a link to some more pictures from our trip.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/MountRogers?authkey=3R7ap5csFss

At the beach

2007-07-06T12:59:00.000-04:00

4th of July

2007-07-06T01:48:00.000-04:00

We got back today from our annual 4th of July trip to the beach with Kim, Jamie, Tommy, Tyler and Daddy. Sunburned again! We used sunscreen but not quite enough. We had a great time and took a lot of pictures.

here's a link to our web album with some of the pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/Beach0604?authkey=P6MZKGJHTyw

CCI photos

2007-06-25T14:45:00.000-04:00

Here is a link to the web album I have with some of my pictures from CCI.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/CCIAnimals

Camping trip

2007-06-25T14:37:00.000-04:00

We had a great time camping with John and Jackie in the Smoky Mountains. The synchronouse lightning bugs were amazing. I wasn't able to get a picture of the lightning bugs but I did figure out how to get pretty cool waterfall pictures.

Here's a link to the web photo album
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/SmokyMountains?authkey=76CWT8df1PA

Camping weekend

2007-06-12T13:00:00.000-04:00

We're going camping this weekend with our friends John and Jackie at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We've never been to the Smokies so we're excited. No pets are allowed on most of the trails so we'll be camping without Baxter and Alaska.

http://www.nps.gov/grsm/

First post

2007-06-08T15:13:00.001-04:00

This is the first post for our new blog.

Duckling

2007-06-08T15:09:00.000-04:00