Thanks again to Elisabeth for rallying us walkers together!
I’ve been choosing something to notice on my walks. Last week was Hallowe’en decorations. This week, I decided to look for flowers on my walk. Not an easy thing because we are definitely in the part of fall where things begin to go dormant, but there were still some fall flowers to be seen in the yards I passed on my neighborhood walks:
Monday 10/20:
-Took the metro to work and then home. (24 minutes for the round trip, punctuated by a metro ride in the middle.)
-30 minute walk around the neighborhood on my lunch break, looking for flowers.
Tuesday 10/21:
-My step count notes a walk between 10am-11am. I’m not quite sure what this was…
-30 minute walk on my lunch break, looking for flowers.
Wednesday 10/22:
-Walked kids to school from the parking lot by the trail and then spent another thirty minutes walking the trail, taking the long way loop back to the car. Did not see any flowers. Makes sense since I was tromping through the woodsy part of the trail.
-30 minute walk on my lunch break. Saw this flower:
Thursday 10/23:
My day off work.
-apparently I took 2700 steps at Target in the morning. Does that count for CBWC??? I mean I spent a hour wandering around – it’s a lot of exercise looking for what you need and not finding it.
-mowed the grass (20 minutes). I’m counting this because it does involve walking and being outdoors.
-the evening we did family photos and essentially spent an hour and a half walking around downtown.
Friday 10/24:
-Walk kids to school from the parking lot by the trail today, and then spent another thirty minutes walking the trail, taking the long way loop back to the car in the parking lot. This time I did manage to see some flowers:
Saturday 10/25:
-Walk with the 6 year old to pick up breakfast sandwiches while the 13 year old was in her voice lessons.
-30 minute walk on my dinner break. I walked to the co-op to pick up some shampoo. But they were out of the shampoo I wanted, so I bought peanut butter, pita, and some olives instead.
Sunday 10/26:
-I worked most of the day, but managed to squeeze in a walk to coffee, which turnes out to be twice as long as I intended because the first coffee place was closed so I walked to another one. (20 mins)
Are there flowers blooming where you are?
What a great idea to look for things on your walk, and you did find a lot of flowers. I’m like you in that a lot of my walking is to places for a reason, rather than walking to take a walk. There are flowers blooming here because we are in Spring.
It’s so cool to remember that when the flowers are fading where I am, they are blooming somewhere else in the world!
Hmmm…flowers…it’s autumn here as well, though likely earlier than where you are. I noticed some of our plants in the back yard are blooming. I’m going to keep my eyes open for flowers on my walks for the rest of the week. I was looking for changing leaves, and mostly it’s too early for that, though there are some for sure. Might be a fun juxtaposition. My walks are in the dark right now, so I may not get any good photos before the time change on Sunday!
I looked for leaves this week. It’a funny some of our trees are still green and some are all bare!
Oooh so pretty! Our chrysanthemums are blooming right now, which is a lovely surprise, as well as our petunias and geraniums, which seems improbable as it’s almost November.
Petunias and geraniums at this time of year! What a nice burst of colour they must be.