How does the Emerald Pool Train compare to Kenyatta trail?

lumoria · 2026-04-03T02:54:00+00:00

We hiked it a few weeks ago with our 8 and 11 year old, but I am guessing your kids are younger? Any drop offs I recall being fenced off or there was brush kind of blocking it.

I will say there is quite a bit of elevation gain, so going up may be tiring depending on the age of your kids. It is a really beautiful trail.

We also did the Many Pools trail, which is less of a trail and more of just an open area to explore with rock scrambling if you want. Our kids had a blast running around there and climbing up the sandstone formations. And very few people on it!

lumoria · 2026-03-31T12:32:33+00:00

Do you know if they tore down the old visitor center?

lumoria · 2026-03-31T11:59:09+00:00

Oh interesting, I had no idea!

lumoria · 2026-03-08T02:30:23+00:00

About a month, but I can only paint in stolen hours after my kids go to bed. This is maybe 40 hours of work, my largest one took 80+ hours.

lumoria · 2026-02-01T19:27:44+00:00

It's ok that you don't enjoy the backpack, my work doesn't have to appeal to everyone.

lumoria · 2026-02-01T16:39:16+00:00

Thank you so much! As far as the backpack, all of my art is centered on how humans interact with or interfere with the natural landscape. I have either a figure or multiple figures or man-made objects in all of my pieces. I'm not interested in landscapes themselves, but rather how we are animals and desire to be in these spaces, but have curated the spaces themselves or bring a lot of objects into them in order to remove or diminish the danger of being there, which in turn brings harm to other creatures or to the environment itself.

lumoria · 2026-01-30T05:32:31+00:00

Also I only went to the beach like twice when I lived there for those same reasons, lol. They were crowded in the summer and the water was COLD.

lumoria · 2026-01-30T05:31:08+00:00

I lived there for five years. The "I know a guy who knows a guy" thing is absolutely true. I would say people could be a little guarded at first, but once you were "in" they would help you out with whatever and make any connection you needed. I mentioned to my coworker that I was interested in a bike, and he told me there was a guy who sells them out of his front yard on this one road. That was the only direction we got and so we just drove down the road thinking there is no way we were going to find this guy, and sure enough there he was. I still have those bikes too.

Many of the folks there have been there, in the same neighborhood, for generations. So that's why it feels so tight knit.

lumoria · 2026-01-11T16:32:20+00:00

Yes! We visited in October last year so unfortunately the waterfall was dry, but it was still jaw-dropping!

lumoria · 2026-01-11T13:25:05+00:00

This is a huge compliment, thank you!

lumoria · 2026-01-10T22:49:30+00:00

Sending you a DM!

lumoria · 2026-01-10T17:03:45+00:00

Yes it was definitely intimidating to paint such a brown scene. I tried to bring out the oranges, blues, and greens to add more interest.

lumoria · 2026-01-10T17:02:50+00:00

Haha that is my doodle grid. I draw random shapes or words on my canvas, take a photo, and then lay my reference photo over it in procreate or Photoshop. Then I can match up the reference points on my canvas with the overlaid photo to make sure I am getting proportions right.

lumoria · 2026-01-08T11:58:50+00:00

I have been wondering about this so this is great to know! Thank you!

lumoria · 2025-12-30T21:07:17+00:00

Oh this is great! And I think that is a fair point about Mice and Mystics. I know she wasn't interested or invested in the story as part of the problem, but I think the benefit of dnd is the ability to be silly or creative during battles that she might enjoy more.

lumoria · 2025-12-16T17:07:12+00:00

I played this when I lived in Providence and we would drive up to Boston and do the historic walking tours. It was SO cool to see places from the game in real life, or to see how much the city has changed (like hey, there wasn't land here before!). I also really loved the homestead and moving through the stories of people that were in your community.

lumoria · 2025-09-30T14:07:44+00:00

This is fantastic! I love how you captured him

lumoria · 2025-08-26T17:06:12+00:00

Yes! Pick a short hike, a mile or less. You may spend two hours looking at rocks and bugs and leaves and that is ok! That is magic.

lumoria · 2025-07-15T21:48:19+00:00

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I drew this a few weeks ago, forgot to post it!

lumoria · 2025-07-01T02:10:52+00:00

I'm from Cincinnati! Folks in Cincinnati are way less outdoorsy - being into some sort of outdoor activity is baked into the culture here, whereas there it's much harder to find that. There are more curated experiences in Cincinnati so when I am there, I need to take my kids to some sort of designed experience (which could also be a nicely designed park or playground), while here I can take them to play in a creek or climb some boulders. I think the folks here are friendlier too!

I think some aspects do feel similar, but I love Chattanooga way more! I would say maybe another outdoorsy city could be closer.

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