A Peek at the Poconos

Today we'll begin the October 2021 trip to the Poconos. For the second year in a row, Jim and I decided to do a fall "leaf peeping" getaway. This time, we stayed a little closer to home by heading to the Delaware Water Gap NRA area. While there, we spent a day walking, first around the Airbnb we rented and then at the Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) — pronounced PEEK. This non-profit is aligned with the National Park Service, and it has a passport stamp at the visitor center. I chose the Two Ponds trail as our walking path, and the first part was quite lovely. Being near the end of the season, though, it was a little tricky to follow (even with the blazes Jim is pointing out below) and got pretty muddy. We backtracked and chose a different trail, which you will see in a future blog.

I worked on these pages while at a crop. My packing strategy for taking supplies from home is to focus on one album, and this time it was the Fall 2021 trip. Doing that makes it easier to grab coordinating papers and stickers. I just had to grab my boxes with "Fall" and "Camping and nature". (All of my paper packs are sorted by theme or color, just like Tiffany Spaulding recommends.) Since I had all of my older Croptoberfest packs with me, I decided to purchase a class from Meggan and Tessa. Their 2022 Croptoberfest Page Makers Workshop helped me use up some of my extra supplies and create six new 2-page layouts. This is one of the creations from that class. The left page features a laser-cut frame from the Croptoberfest Bundle. I usually struggle with how to incorporate those on a page, so I'm thankful that they had 3 ideas for using them in this class.