My husband and boys returned from a bike ride the other day describing a new trail which promised surprises. I didn't feel much like walking. But he nudged me out the door and pointed in the direction of the trail head.
Go, he said. You are always glad when you do. And he was right. I rarely regret a walk. It has done more for clear thinking and morale than I can say. In fact when the dishes stack and the washer loads are are waiting on the dryer to finish and the pitch of my voice starts to creep ever so slightly higher he nudges again. Go. Walk.
I left this day with two dog walkers and a camera which was a good call. I had no idea what we were walking into. The trail begins with crop fields and meanders into orchards. Coming from the high prairie it nearly took my breath away.
These trees are all abloom for just a short window of time. That window is closing already and the meadows and walkways are snowy with fallen blossoms.
This week the temperatures are taking a nosedive back to seasonal norms. I am so glad we got outside when we did.
"After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value."
~George Macauley Trevelyan
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Oh how beautiful! I do love the spring.
Oh how beautiful, Kim! I traveled down a little street in our uptown today and it was lined with pear trees. But, I didn’t have my camera with me! You are such a photographer!
I love to walk. It’s so clearing to the head and reinvigorating. The pictures are beautiful!
Breathtaking! How wonderful a thought — that the trees are just blooming there, the same as they are back here in Colorado. So far away and so the same, anyway.
You know what Lisa? I was thinking the same thing when I saw Sue’s pics of the trees blooming in Japan. It is a very encouraging comforting thought that although we are all so far apart, and our lives so different, that we are all looking out on the same blooms.
Gorgeous! Your dh sounds like mine. :o)
Great year to be in Germany, it is a desert here in Colorado! You are amazing with your camera girl, just amazing!