Is there any significance to the fact that next Thursday is International Mud Day? Given the amount of rain predicted this weekend we should be in good shape for the celebration - and with any luck it will go a long way to alleviating the Drought Watch the entire Commonwealth is still under. 

However you get outside and play - in the mud or in the rain or in the sunshine when it peeks through - happy weekend!

Derek's photo (from the private Pennsylvania State Parks & Forests Book of Faces) required a little shift of the masthead but it is definitely worth it. It was taken last year, says Derek, during an early morning fishing trip to Lake Wilhelm. 

In furtherance of last week's story on the accessible beach at Gifford Pinchot State Park, check out the Mobi-Mat pathway to reach the water! Bill and I used one of these for the first time at a state park close to where we do our Florida snowbird thing and it was a revelation (in wheelchair wheel revolutions).

Information on using the accessible beach chair can be found on the flyer shown here as well.

The second weekend in July sees us getting "hands on" with arts and crafts and making and doing. Check them out!

Put a bookmark on the PPFF Events calendar and DCNR Calendar of Events so you never miss an announcement.

This week I'll reference Derek's masthead cormorant. Why is the bird doing that? Derek noted it looks like he's struck a meditation pose but that there is in fact another reason for the stance. What is it? 

Enter each week to increase your chances of a fabulous prize at the end of the month when I'll draw one entry from all correct answers received during the month.

Green boxes are pictures and news; blue boxes are events.

[Canadian] National Canoe Day - June 26th

Coined by the Canoe Museum of Canada after release of a Canadian Broadcasting Company survey naming the canoe one of the "Seven Wonders of Canada," there's no reason we can't ALL celebrate the canoe - with thanks to our neighbors to the North!

Quote: Sigurd F. Olson, The Singing Wilderness, 1956.

Photo: Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Delaware Valley Chapter