Month: August 2026

Occasional early weekdays, framed by repeated Saturday visits to the trail.  Few visits I have missed. Nature preserved amid housing and commute traffic, slightly hidden away.  Listen to quietude. Spring / summer wildflowers frame a small wetland.  Dark cold mornings, bright hot mornings, stop to appreciate the views, then parkrun again, again.

A few hundred steps from home.  The gift of rain-fresh water attracts visitors who pass through, and many who stay for a season or two. Or for life.  Turtles all of the way down, fingerlings lurk nearby; ducks, egrets, herons, geese all the way up, they stay for a while and then fly away.  Seasonal…

Spring, summer, fall and winter, the sun and moonlight advance above – patterns across the tree line.  Watch the progression from early redbuds through full summer canopy to fall colors and then – finally the years growth drifts down and away. For just a few short months until the next early spring.  Each day a…