My first word was go and from the time I could walk, I did. Down into the canyons of the family cattle ranch. Around the mesas. Beside the creeks. Eventually, through the fences. There’s a reason my theme song is Don’t Fence Me In.
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called… but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking
All images ©Kaci Cronkhite.
Red Hill, the closest mesa in the canyons of our family cattle ranch--land my family had loved for four generations. “We pioneered a picturesque spot and I lived not without fear—rattlesnakes, Indians, very remote. I loved it all!” -Great Grandma Eva Buckingham Cronkhite
Arizona desert 2014
English Channel overlooking Jersey from Cape Carteret, France
12th century ruins of St. Germain chapel, Normandy, France
Island of Öja, Swedish Archipelago
Mon Klint, Denmark
Netherlands.
Point Wilson, Port Townsend.
Kawau Island, New Zealand