Walk in the Sunlight

It's now officially autumn.

I took a trip to visit Amy and my grandchildren. Since my Dane was doing online school I took the back roads and made the time to take some pictures with my phone and do some walking.

It was a gorgeous day! Not a bear in sight and not a coyote to be heard.

Camel's Hump, early morning

I was driving down the Champlain Valley where the color is just starting to show.

That bright blue sky made me happy.

Huntington Falls in Weybridge, VT

This area belongs to an electric company. Their power plant is hidden behind the tree above. There is a small parking lot and a nice picnic area with a couple of tables -- a family fishing spot.

This knotweed is an invasive taking over river banks and wetlands.

I stopped in Middlebury. This meadow at the edge of town used to be owned by Middlebury College but is now preserved. There is a walkway around the periphery.

White aster

New England aster

Burning bush, because it is pretty, was a popular landscape shrub for a while.

Now it is considered an invasive and is discouraged.

Tis dead tree has seen some bird activity.

Otter Creek

There is a turtle sunning on the rock.

Crimson Norway maple

Another landscape darling gone rogue. It is now making the "most hated" lists.

Gray dogwood

I saw a few other people out walking but it was easy to maintain physical distance and everyone wore a mask!

Middlebury College has a beautiful campus to stroll around, but it is closed to any visitors. I did take a walk in town. I lived in Middlebury for a while and I love it there. I'll share the town pictures another time.

It's TIme

It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...

New Furniture

We went shopping for a new couch. I liked this one, the first store we went to. Of course it would be an impulse to buy the first one so we trekked around to other stores -- something we liked more, a better deal? No surprise that we ended up going back to that first store the next day and purchasing that couch for our living room. Also a matching love seat for the den where we watch TV. Because I had replaced my old love seat with two recliners. We couldn't keep three households worth of furniture after all. Well, my recliner was not big enough to accommodate both Levi and me. Poor boy had to watch TV from his bed on the floor. There! This is much better! Spoiled much? The little tail on the floor belongs to his toy squirrel, Buddy. It's like having a toddler with the need to be picking up toys or risk tripping over them. But his very favorite play thing is that bathmat that can be found anywhere but the bathroom floor.

Walking

I have always been a walker. Now that I have a high energy dog there is no excuse for not getting out there. And the weather is not an interfering factor here. Early morning and early evening are our preferred times so even when it gets hot we should be okay. We can get quite a long walk going around the neighborhood, greeting neighbors out working in their yards or walking their own dogs. But the landscape changes quickly just beyond the confines of the housing developments. It could be described as natural Florida or as sites of future housing developments. I do prefer the first option. And I really enjoy being out in natural areas so I often opt to head to a nature setting. I would have liked to put a picture here. Unfortunately my iPhone has made a unilateral decision. It will no longer be sending my photos to my computer. Why? I have no idea. However, we may be walking along happily enough -- me listening to the birds or trying to identify wildflowers and other plants while L...

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