My husband loved nature–everything about it. We spent our 20’s camping in east Texas. We moved to the coast in our 30’s and spent most of the time on the beach or at wildlife refuges. He loved to fish above all else–he was as excited to see my daughter or myself reel in a monster fish as he was to reel one in himself.

That is one thing I will always miss about him the most … his sheer joy of nature and the unknown on the end of a fishing rod. I have to force myself to go to the beach now, it is so painful.