Category: Walking

A walk in the blueberry barrens

On Sunday. I spent a good long time almost alone in this huge field under this very blue sky. Picking blueberries, and then taking a walk. I’ve walked this road before. I forget where...

Pre-snow

I took a longer walk today so I could visit the beach. Because who knows when I’ll see it again. Snow for the next few days, maybe a lot of it. Then ice as...

Meandering toward 2023

It’s been a strange week. I don’t work anymore “outside the home” as they used to say, but I still have a sensation of being off work. I feel on hiatus, yet everything continues...

Old Pond Railway Trail

My walk today brought me down Old Pond Railway Trail. Sam & I walked this way yesterday, and I saw a large patch of lichen windfall. I wanted to go back today and do...

Red oak

We hiked up Schoodic Mountain this morning. Now I’m overwhelmed with stuff to do before going to Connecticut for mom’s services. But I don’t regret it. It was a beautiful morning to be outdoors....

New eyes

I feel renewed by September. Other people are struggling with heat, but I had to put on an extra layer to walk early this morning. It’s refreshing. When I first looked out the window,...

High tide

But from its earliest beginnings, farming was much more than a new economy. It also saw the creation of patterns of life and ritual that remain doggedly with us millennia later, and have since...