Gateway to my personal Nature Reserve

[Chris Webb]

My personal nature area begins under a bridge on a back road ...
I've spent countless hours of peaceful reflection and wandering there.

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This place is less than two minutes from where I park my rig. The creek
makes a bend just past the bridge, after that it's pristine, lots of fossils
too. I've never even seen another person on the creek, maybe just a couple
of footprints and they may have been mine. It goes for at least a mile
before you run into the next country road.

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It's a well known place, but few have the gumption to hike up it, it requires
some technical expertise if you are not going to get wet. The real concern
is that this very location is going to one day be covered with a new major
corridor, it will be a concrete drainage way for a coming highway.
But, this could be well after I'm gone, it's hard to know just how long
these long term plans can take.

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Part of what I love about being alone in a secluded place is not even
having to care about what others might 'see' ... when I took this pic it
occurred to me to just sit the way I always have when gazing down this
wonderful creek. I wasn't sure if this picture would violate our rules, but
when you wear mini's, whether kilts or skirts, what you have on under
it is part of the outfit ... recognizing this goes a long way towards making
a man feel more comfortable about wearing shorter garments. This picture
got nothing but sincere compliments on Facebook, I hope that it somehow
encourages any man here who is still afraid to go out and just be himself
in what HE wants to wear, even if it's a mini skirt.

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God, it's just good to be kilted.

Kilt ON!

Chris Webb

[sapphire]

Chris,
Great pics! I do think they belong in the pics and looks section, but whatever.....

I can relate to your idea of a personal Nature Reserve. ears ago, I lived about 60 miles west of where I now am in an area of wild and wonderful places rich in biodiversity. While these areas were not as private as yours, they did provide spots that were accessed by more technical hikers: hidden caves and waterfalls.

Here, where Carl and I now reside, we have a wonderful Rail Trail that links in with other trails to form a greenway. Eventually our greenway will be linked in with others to form a rail trail originating in Boston (50 miles east of here) and extending 104 miles westward to Northamption.

If you are not familiar with Massachusetts, the envisioned trail will go through some spectacular areas, rich in both natural and human history. The divsersity of flora and fauna is amazing and the relics of past human activity along this trail is amazing.

Uh oh, I'm going into biology mode.....

To keep this on topic, Carl has walked our town's portion of the trail in a skirt.

Thanks for the pix.
Sapphire

[Chris Webb]

Thanks! I put this thread here because the pics and looks section can only be viewed by folks with current logins ... I just want as many men as possible to get encouragement from seeing that I am out there kilting and skirting all the time.

Your nature trail sounds awesome! North Texas has lots of wonderful places to hike, I've got another thread here about a hike I went on yesterday at a State Park near by. I just love being outside, and I gotta say that since I went full time into kilts and skirts 6 years ago every single venture outside is simply more enjoyable. For folks who are just getting up the courage to throw off their pants and put on a kilt or skirt I recommend hiking on a trail as a good start to getting out in public ... you'll just be amazed at how supportive other hikers are, they all know that a skirt is better than any shorts and they'll be quick to tell you how comfortable you look.

Sapphire, thanks for the encouragement, I'm glad you like the pics!

Chris

[nicothoe]

The one thing I miss about the "old country" is that a two and a half hour drive from Liverpool in any direction would take me to some beautiful National Parks - whether is was the mountains of North Wales, the English Lake District or the Pennines. While there are many wonderful places to visit in Illinois and Wisconsin, it simply doesn't compare.

[Since1982]

Nico, drive a little farther and check out Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. They will leave you speechless.

[stefan]

Nico, drive a little farther and check out Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. They will leave you speechless.

I have only been to Grand Canyon but I agree with skip. It takes your breath away. Really majestic. I have been to Grand Canyon twice. Once in in a busride on the rim and another time in helicopter flying high above the canyon since they did not allow us to descend with the helicopter into the canyon. At the time I was visting Las Vegas for the Comdex exhibition.

/Stefan

[tesjolts]

Chris,
great pics, truly an inspiration. I am now warming up to the idea of shortening my kilts to show more leg.
But it will have to wait for warmer weather. Brrr

As you say Kilt On!

[Chris Webb]

Yea, it took me awhile to work up to kilts so short. LOL!

When I started full time kilting all my kilts were 21.5 inches. One of my kilts got damaged so I had to cut it to 20 inches and, wow, it was just more comfortable. Then I found I could get a kilt for less money by buying a 'ladies' kilt, which was exactly like a man's kilt except it was 18" long, I could hardly tell the difference except that I was getting lots more 'nice legs' compliments. Just for grins I cut one of my work kilts to 15.5 inches one summer to make it cooler and, MAN, the compliments soared!! After that I bought a 14" kilt for Peggy that was too big for her but fit me, I wore it hiking and got used to it, next thing I knew all my work kilts for summer were 14 inchers. My shortest kilt is what I call Spartan length, 12.5 inches, I wear it specifically for running ... like all my kilts this one gets lots of pics and compliments.

By far my favorite length is 14 inches, it gives full coverage and with maximum leggage ... but you do have to consider what you have on under it as part of the outfit because it is just more likely to be seen than in a trad length kilt or knee length skirt.

I'll say this for a fact, the shorter my kilts or skirts the more compliments I get and it is VERY rare for anyone to make any kind of negative remark ... the only remark I've really heard is this one: Aren't kilts supposed to be to the knee? I just say, "That's the Length of a Traditional Scottish Kilt, but this ain't Scotland." Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to matter what length I wear, or even whether or not it is a kilt, most folks comment, "Nice Kilt."

These days the word 'kilt' basically means 'skirt on a man' ... so wear any damned kilt you want at any damned length you want in any style you want!! As long as it looks masculine then you really are, by modern societal standards, wearing a kilt.

Kilt ON!

Chris Webb