Jason Nicholas hikes through a park with his dog Olivia, spotting butterflies, swallows, a snake, and bones while reflecting on nature as productive procrastination. He sketches on-site and wrestles with camera gear, inviting viewers to join future walk-and-talk streams.
It's Saturday. I'm just out taking a walk with my friend right here. Yeah, popping on just for a few minutes, a little Hiking Mike. We'll take a quick look around and see what comes into my brain. So it's Saturday today and it's, uh, got some stuff done this morning. It's a great time now to get out, take a little walk today. Alright, let's take a walk. Do you ever have one of those days where you have so much stuff you need to do, but the weather is so amazing that you just have to get outside? Yeah, that's one of those days. There's so many things I need to be doing, but I can't resist. It's like my core being is being pulled by the great outdoors here to take a quick walk around because, um, well, I guess I'm procrastinating, right? It's only— we all do it. It's simply part of being human, procrastinating. But seriously, it's— it is so nice out here. I just want to get some fresh air. The work will be there later when I get home. So I hope you're having a great day. Let me know where you're watching from. Edie's in the house. Edie, how are you? I hope you're doing great today. Always good seeing you. This is low-key probably one of my most favorite places to go and take a walk. There's a butterfly. I wish I could zoom in, but I can't. Olivia, My pup is, uh, she got away from me. She won't run away, I just want to make sure we're pretty close here. Take a walk with me over to the bridge and the waterfall. Let's go down here, actually check it out. Let's go down by the waterfall. Come on, let's go. Come on. Livia, she's all the way up there. Come on, pup. Come on, Liv, come here. I usually have her on leash. Well, she's on leash. I'm usually walking her. Livia, come here. All right, we're going up the hill, so bear with me, guys. I know the phone's shaky. I am using my iPhone. I do have a Just got a new camera, but it's not connecting live, so I'll work on that. But you get the raw bounciness of me walking around. We'll pause here for a minute. Great question. I believe it's a, um, it's a dam, right? We have all this water here, then it goes down that hill. I believe it's a dam holding the water back. I'm gonna see if I can go down the hill here. It's very idyllic here. I could listen to this water all day, sit here all day long. Hello, Danny. If you guys like this kind of live streaming, these kind of walks in nature or walks in New York City and, uh, sketching, architectural sketching, hit that thumbs up button. Please subscribe. There's definitely more of this in the future. Look at those birds. I think they're called swallows. I could be wrong. I believe they nest under the bridge here. It's pretty epic. Lydia, maybe it's being a good— she's such a good pup. Libby, come on, buddy. We have this mysterious I don't know, maybe a hobbit house or something. It's kind of old. I don't know if it's an old tank or something. All right, we're headed up the hill. Let's go, Liv! Again, these kinds of walks really invigorate me on so many levels. Is that a snake? Let me— I see a snake. He's pulling me the wrong direction. There's a snake under the bridge. Watch for snakes, buddy. I don't know if you guys can see it, it is under the bridge on top of the concrete area where the water falls. Don't want to get too close. Take out my gimbal after some nice smooth streaming around here. Sit down on this rock. Oh, there are some bones on the ground. What the heck? All right, sorry, I'm gonna log out in a sec here. Um, I have, I have to get here a few times but not enough. It's hard for me to sketch when I have Olivia because while she's a pup, she's curious, she wants to wander everywhere, so we don't really get to stay still in a certain area for a long amount of time. But when I come here on my own, I definitely sketch. And I might have to start coming here like twice a day, once with my pup and once without. That's okay because I want to be here for her as well. All right guys, let's see. Liv, let's go. She wants to go up the hill. I want to do A little bit of streaming before I go. Well, I hope you enjoyed this quick walk and talk here. Thanks for tuning in. If you do like this, please hit that like button, subscribe. I would love to have you back for more walks and talks, hikes and mikes, sketching, and just, uh, doing what I do. All right, until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire endlessly.
