Walking Journal and Walking Stories

Not this year. Unfortunately, I forgot to pack the right shoes. But I did do some walking there on my last visit, almost exactly a year earlier.

Oh, and here is the same mountain range, seen across the Rio Grande. I forgot to include this one in the first post.

Beautiful, Thomas.
Look at that mountain range!
Look at that sky!
You'll have to take some heavy duty walking shoes next time!

I was going to refer you to Dys's old thread about my last visit (right over here) But I never posted any photos from my walk in the Sandia mountain range. If you don't mind, perhaps I could find some, pretend the walk happened this year, and post them here.

Well I certainly don't mind, Thomas. And I'm pretty sure the tsar (whose thread this is ) will be very interested, too! Yes, please do post them!
(Going over to read Dys's thread now.)

Oops!

It's OK, I'm sure, Thomas.

Just worked my way through Dys's thread. What a place! Chaco Canyon is another world. Love it. Love the rocks!

There r billions of worlds on this planet. A world is a sphere of cognition.


Years ago, I had a big, beautiful Golden Retriever dog, named Mike.
He spent most of his life comfortably indoors, but I had some large size water dishes
out on the patio for him. There came a time that I deemed my patio cluttered with
too many big dog water dishes strewn around, so I emptied one of them
and stored it on a structure for sheltering garbage cans.

A few years thereafter, I chanced to stroll near the disused dish
and, looking downward, I saw that leaves from my maple trees had fallen in,
and that a thriving ecosystem was flourishing below accumulated rain water;
all kinds of little fellows frolicking around in there.

It occurred to me, that if thay had a Creation myth,
it woud be of me carrying Mike 's dish over to the garbage can storage shed.
If their society had a Space Program, it woud be to get out of the dish.
Maybe, during moments of silent contemplation, some of them looked up
into their sky and poured out their innermost thoughts and desires,
hoping that I was up above, benevolently looking down upon their world.
Perhaps there was debate among members of that aquatic community
within which citizens who believed in My existence were subjected to scorn,
by the more materialistic among them, because none of them had actually seen Me.
When I was looking down into their little society, if any of them had tried to crucify Me,
I woud not have let him get away with it.

If any prophets among them had visions of an Apocalypse, instead of Horsemen,
thay might have dreaded Mike returning for a drink on a hot day.

Maybe I shoud have given them the One Commandment:
Thou shalt use fonetic spelling.





David

So, any more walking tales & photographs, anyone?
I hope so.
None from me. I'm afraid a busy working week got in the way.
I'm hoping for a couple of major-ish walks to make up for that, now it's the weekend. (at last, at last! )

I signed up for a hike that was supposed to happen yesterday (Thursday), but it was canceled. I am signed up for a 2.5 hour hike tomorrow which will be good. Last weekend was not great, weather-wise. I walked around the city, close to home.

That sounds good! Where to this time?

I'm cooking & cleaning & A2King (all at once!) now, k. (Midday Saturday.) I hope I can fit in a walk this afternoon. If not, the crack of dawn, tomorrow! (Or else!)

But where are you, tsar?

MsOlga... you are a multi-tasking queen! I will be hiking in the same piece of conservation land as always: the middlesex fells.

That certainly was strange . . . there was something of the gypsy in that matchmaking woman.

I walked once last week and Thursday (work to home). Nothing notable. both took about 2 hours. Took some photographs from the 59th Street bridge. Will put them up Sunday.

Sometime next week, I'll make a slightly longer walk homeward bound from work by the more route of crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and walking north through Brooklyn to Queens (which by definition is a tad intimidating a task). Looking for a good weather day to pull this one off.

The Middlesex Falls isn't very impressive!

I spent two days on the Cape, my first overnight visit there although I have lived in New England since 1976. Our faculty had a retreat in Hyannis. I was naughty and skipped several discussions to walk. I walked for an hour just to see the ocean the first day. Then it occurred to me that I love lighthouses and that I should make certain I see one. Although the map is dotted with old lights, most of them seem to be behind the walls of gated communities.

I walked for 90 minutes the second day in futile search of Hyannis Harbor Light. No one could tell me where it was and I never found it. Then I tried to find the Gammon Point light only to be confronted with guarded and gated community. I turned around and parked in the lot of the public beach and could see the lighthouse from there. Had 50 minutes on the hard packed white sand.

On my first walk, I saw an orange butterfly decorated with black spots. Immediately, a gold finch flew past me a few inches from my shoulder. As I passed a house where a pick up truck was parked in the driveway, I heard something rattling around in the truck and a raccoon jumped out and ran into the yard. It was my nature walk.

Oh I don't know, tsar !


It looks very pretty to me!

You were expecting huge, Niagra-like, thunderous falls?

I walked a couple of kilometres around the bay this morning, and forgot to take my camera.

This is a great time of the year in Sydney and the air is crisp, sky is blue - but the wind has a bite - you need to stride out to keep warm. That wind has now brought in some high cloud, but still a lovely day.

There were lots of people out and about, some walking their kids, others their dogs. Most people walk one way along the bay and then return via the road, so you see people you've already said hello to. Some nice dogs said g'day as I passed them for the second time (owner wasn't bad, either). The house I've had my eye on is sold - they only wanted $2.5 million for it. I was saving up for it!

Great day for it, margo, if it's anything like the weather here today. I'm going to do my walk very soon, too!



Oh bugger.