Seen while walking in Ann Arbor yesterday.
Following a string of gray days, the sun is winking in and out of view, so it’s time to walk. Today’s other projects include my reading and notes for tomorrow’s meeting on The Magic Mountain, a “You took how many days off?!?” music practice, reading for this, and my current Latin unit.
Seen at the Toledo Zoo and Aquarium.
Fog and train tracks on my Christmas morning walk.
Seen earlier this week.
Yesterday’s walk reminded me to be grateful we live in a county with conservation areas through which one can walk and hear only the sounds of prairie grass rustling, trees swaying, small mammals darting, and birds calling. The steady drone of midday traffic certainly dampens the healing effects of an afternoon in the woods.
Image captured last Monday at a conservation area.
Because of the unexpectedly icy conditions, it took nearly two hours to walk just four miles this morning. An inch and a half of snow on Halloween! Many trees still have most of their leaves, so the remainder of our fall cleanup will be a wet mess. I’ll think about it tomorrow. Or Saturday.
Yesterday morning at the dam.
Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget.
— From Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Yesterday at the conservation area.
The first image is from our walk on Saturday at the state park. The next two images were taken yesterday at a favorite conservation area; the last three, today, same location.
Nerdishly 