We have been living in such changed circumstances this year. Days tend to roll into each other in a new rhythm, weeks go by without the usual markers of work, travel, and social events, and somehow it is May,
When I started this hometown version of a big adventure, it was early Spring, which, around here, is a spectacular time for wildflowers. In the picture on the left, my walking partner August West, is surrounded by California poppies. I took this photos weeks ago, in early April, in the peak of their season.
Native plants are in good supply around here, but each variety has a growing season, and as the photo on the left shows, the flash mob of poppies has dispersed, and there are some new plants on their way up!
When I started this hometown version of a big adventure, it was early Spring, which, around here, is a spectacular time for wildflowers. In the picture on the left, my walking partner August West, is surrounded by California poppies. I took this photos weeks ago, in early April, in the peak of their season.
Native plants are in good supply around here, but each variety has a growing season, and as the photo on the left shows, the flash mob of poppies has dispersed, and there are some new plants on their way up!
In case you were wondering, I am NOT being followed by a photography crew snapping images of the local flora,or fauna!
The flowers, and plants that I am seeing along the way are changing slowly with summer approaching. The cool thing is that I do pass through sunny open fields, shaded lanes, seasonal creeks, and each one of these microclimates host vastly different vegetation. Sometimes a lizard will scuttle just past me, then I will get nearer a water source, and the frogs are croaking. Today we saw rabbits, deer, squirrels aplenty, and when on ridges got to listen to the beat of wings of local birds as they passed overhead. Sometimes I am fast enough to catch a critter in its element, or slow enough to notice a blooming flower, and they show up here. With the obvious exceptions of the fangirl posts about Bobby and David, and their accompanying period shots of awesome lunchboxes, I am taking these photos as I go along. And, no, I have no formal training, and as you may have intuited, all the technical aspects of blogging I am learning along the way.
And, yes, I am darn proud that I have managed to learn how to do any of this! It certainly does not come naturally to me, but here I am flogging away.
The walking part of this journey comes much more easily to me. I grew up walking or biking everywhere, and just kept going! When the kids came along, I front packed them, backpacked them, strolled them all around town. When we got the first Gorrin family dog, the Gorrin family created the "poop a loop" and the 4 of us would walk Gidget, the chocolate Lab, around the block, which around here, is some distance! Our family hiked and camped, strolled city streets, home and wherever we traveled, in a way, I have been training for this walk for decades! My kids are staying active during this time of quarantine, walking and biking up in SF, doing their best to stay strong and safe, and making their momma quite proud. Not so long from now, my son will make the most important walk of his life, up the aisle to marry Bridget, and Margot and I will not only walk up to support him, we will all dance to celebrate.
And, yes, I am darn proud that I have managed to learn how to do any of this! It certainly does not come naturally to me, but here I am flogging away.
The walking part of this journey comes much more easily to me. I grew up walking or biking everywhere, and just kept going! When the kids came along, I front packed them, backpacked them, strolled them all around town. When we got the first Gorrin family dog, the Gorrin family created the "poop a loop" and the 4 of us would walk Gidget, the chocolate Lab, around the block, which around here, is some distance! Our family hiked and camped, strolled city streets, home and wherever we traveled, in a way, I have been training for this walk for decades! My kids are staying active during this time of quarantine, walking and biking up in SF, doing their best to stay strong and safe, and making their momma quite proud. Not so long from now, my son will make the most important walk of his life, up the aisle to marry Bridget, and Margot and I will not only walk up to support him, we will all dance to celebrate.
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