plessner Loc: North Dakota

glad you are feeling better and keep on doing what you love to do

Sierracoyote Loc: Sierra Nevada Mountains

Hi Dave,
Nice photos, you have a good eye...Also with your desire to hike and enjoy those things you see your love of life is paramount. YOU are in control of your body and it is YOU that is fighting cancer no one else. Keep up the good work and positive attitude and you love of nature. My thoughts are with you!

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

I'd like to think the doctors help. (Some times I wonder?)

Here is one I took today. The church ladies did not make it easy because they hung it in a stair well, with no good place to stand. I used DxO PhotoLab to straighten it out.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-547431-1.html

foodie65

Hope you continue in the road to recovery Dave.
Regarding #2, the pokeweed; when we were kids we called them Ink berries. The legend around where I lived was that the Indians (now native Americans) would make ink out of them
and write with it.

Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

Dave
glad your better cool set do you have any
shitaki mushrooms
chuck

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

I believe that shitaki mushrooms require a lot of water. I do have a small slow running stream on one corner of my property, but it's down in deep gully that would be difficult to climb into and harder to get out. During a hard rain that stream turns into a raging stream that would wash everything away.

Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

wayne barnett Loc: Grants Pass, Oregon

Polk weed is editable if prepared correctly. Get fresh shoots in the spring and get the proper methods for cooking from the web.

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

Beautiful shots Dave. It must be awfully good to have your own nature trail. BTW, congratulations on getting back out. Can imagine how it must have felt to be looking at it and not being able to get out to it. Am now a 26 year survivor of the big "C". Still have bouts with it. You are definitely a survivor. Keep it up.

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

These are beautiful images, Dave! And I hope you get back to your "normal self" soon!

Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania

Wow, 26 years! That's twice as long as I have known I have C. I'm told that I probably had it for years and never knew it.

I think I brought it to the surface with some hard mountain climbing in Peru and the Carpathians in Romania. When one does a serious climb the body screams at you to "stop this!" We learn to ignore that voice and keep climbing. No one else has confirmed my theory. It's just that, with me it reached point where I knew something was wrong with my body on top of mountain. The decent down the mountain was painful. My liver and kidney was in trouble. The doctors managed to save both organs. The enlarged lymph nodes had crowded those organs partially shutting them down.

Now I get CATscans every six months, so I know what is going on within me. The strange thing is that now the cancer is stopped and driven back into remission before it can hurt me. However this last three months of chemo knocked the HE!! out of me. Sometimes it seems like the cure is worse than than the cancer!

carlbsc

God has a purpose for you, maybe it is to provide us with you excellent photography.