Walking Journal and Walking Stories

Strange, indeed, POM. Perhaps the fellow was some sort of gigolo?

Really? Hmph! What's impressive about the Fells is that it is there at all!

So, the hike was more like 3 hours. We hiked from East of I-93 to the West side (under the highway). We wound our way to Wright's Tower and headed back. The view of Boston below is from Wright's Tower, looking SxSE. The highway below it is I-93 in Medford. Some of us ate at a local ribs place after the hike. Oddly 3 of us were (basically) vegetarians.



Here's the tower itself.



We had several people on the hike who'd never hiked before. One kept asking me to take photos of her because none of her friends would believe she was out there in nature and climbing rocks.

Terrific view of Boston, k.
Love a city full of trees!
The Fells are growing on me!

My (late Sunday afternoon) walk was not a terribly exciting. The tail end of a rat run around the suburbs in my car. (returning videos, library visit, a bit of shopping, etc, etc ..) As I didn't have the time to do a long walk, I parked my car about half way between my place & the the house of the friend I was visiting, to deliver some msolga home-made soup. (I made a LOT of soup last night.)

Stopped long enough for one of my friend's cappuccinos & a chat, & to fill my backpack with lemons from her tree, plus lots of little Thai chillies from her garden ... then had to head back to my car in a great hurry as it was beginning to get dark. A 2km walk at great speed, just as the street lights were coming on, along with the lights in people's homes. A rather melancholy time of day, no one else on the street but me & a lot of cars passing through with their lights on. At this time of day you really know that winter is just around the corner. You feel that crispness & chill in the air ... & the atmosphere is quite misty & wintry.
Back home now. Looking forward to a big, steaming bowl of that soup for dinner.

The trees you see are in a couple of suburbs which are North of Boston. But, Boston does have trees of its own (just can't really see them in this pic).

I have never had lemons fresh off a tree before. Not even in Italy. Are they much different than they are store bought?

while delivering some parcels to my uncle i saw this woodlot, i didn't have time to fully explore, but i'm gonna put it on my list of places to go for a walk

path into the woods


a near by river feeds this swampy area


wildflowers in the woods



wildflowers as seen from the road

I liked them . . . there are all sorts of little falls coming through the ledge around here. They freeze in winter and form little solid falls and then disappear in high summer.

Lemons from the tree! How wonderful! Even chilies are hard to grow in MA unless you start them in cold frames or under hoops or in a greenhouse.

Really, k? (You & POM) have never had fresh lemons?
Gosh, I thought they were grown everywhere! Well they're grown all over the place here, as are other citrus trees. (my first mandarins for the season a just starting to ripen. Hooray. )
The fresh variety of lemons tastes fresher (of course! ) & zippier, tangier ...
I have about 30 from my friend's (incredibly prolifically-producing) tree. Now I'm wondering what to do with them all! Have already given some away to a neighbour.

A very chilly morning is only just beginning to warm up here. Sunshine! Yay!
I have a long, leisurely walk planned. Can't wait.

During the fall semester, I drove 140 miles a day, five days a week, and so did not walk. I put on about five pounds and as a woman of a certain age, five pounds is just plain tough to get rid of. Have been walking again and am enjoying it immensely! Plan to climb my local "mountain," which is only about 800 feet high but is visible from the back windows of my house.

plainoldme? You got the whole support of the a2k WJWS Club behind ya! Cracking that walking whip of encouragement!!

No wimpy words of encouragement here!!

Go POM!

really. Citrus grows on Florida and California. It probably could grow in much of the South. Definitely can't grow citrus in the North. Too cold, too little sun.

this rain is (no pun intended) putting a damper on my walking schedule

I think citrus can grow in zone 8 or warmer (zones 9, 10, etc). Massachusetts is up in the zone 5 and 6 area.

A drippy ditto here as well!!

Interesting, k.
Melbourne, Victoria (where I live) is located in one of Oz's temperate zones. (Or it is now. We'll see what happens as the climate changes.) Backyard lemon trees are a common feature of suburban backyards.

I've been doing lots of walking ever since I planted my tomatoes. They need to be watered 2 a day. My red roses are in full bloom as are my apricot roses and my yellow roses. My peach tree is loaded with fruit. The smoke tree is totally filled with smoke. My tomatoes and cucumbers are thriving. I've been doing lots of walking and I haven't left the back yard.

Is not being able to do your daily walk making you cranky, djjd?

Aren't I sort of right between DJ and Tsar? You're both getting it now and we are expected to get it soon, so which way is it coming from?

Sounds really wonderful (your garden, I mean), dys.
... and the constant walking from plant to plant, too!