It was surprisingly hard to arrive my 10k steps yesterday. Usually, I range them inwards slices, but I figured a walk unopen to the perimeter of this large RV commons would larn me at to the lowest degree halfway there. It turned out to go a disappointing 3,500 steps. Obviously, I'm going to bring to start sooner inwards the day. Despite beingness fewer steps than anticipated, it's a skillful house for walking. There are lots of streets to walk upward in addition to downwards in addition to encounter unlike things. Here are some things I saw inwards yesterday's walk through the neighborhood.
Of course, I'm thrilled amongst every blooming thing. Even amongst traveling, it's been a long mutual depression temperature winter.
Not certain what this is. It reminds me of honeysuckle, but I don't intend I've always seen it inwards this color. The bees seem to similar it.
What a pretty pot...and that's a peacock to the correct of it.
Or how nigh this one?
These signs gave me a chuckle:
The telephone proper name upward of a plane caught my attention, in addition to I looked upward to encounter this Common Kestrel upward high overhead. It was hard to larn skillful pictures amongst thus many tree branches.
Here's a improve paradigm from the internet:
At first, I idea it was feeding some offspring. The nest was located to the correct inwards the same tree. You tin encounter the bird's tail only to the correct in addition to at the transcend of the nest inwards the paradigm below.
But later watching it for a acre (and trying to larn a improve picture), I realized it was inwards the procedure of edifice its nest. It was violent off sticks in addition to thus flight to the nest amongst them.
So I'll proceed an oculus on it in addition to perhaps we'll larn a run a peril to encounter something interesting happen. It would bring been dainty if the nest were inwards a house a lilliputian easier to photograph. As usual, the plane did non consult me. This mightiness involve a tripod outing.
Walking on, I came to the Canis familiaris park. This is an off leash park, in addition to at that topographic point are 2 inwards the RV commons on contrary corners.
But what range nosotros tending nigh dogs, huh? We were to a greater extent than interested inwards the cats.
Here's a roadrunner made from golf game stuff.
And this was an operating fountain. The bottle on the correct had H2O pouring into in addition to flood the drinking glass into the receptacle below.
Early inwards the afternoon, the farmer's marketplace position came to town. Yes, nosotros bring no avocados. Bummer. Nevertheless, they had some skillful materials for sale. Lots of unlike flavors of dear in addition to bee products. There were candles, bee pollen, in addition to gift boxes. They also had sections of honeycomb amongst the honey.
When my dad in addition to I used to heighten bees together, I loved getting a seize amongst teeth of the honeycomb in addition to chewing it until the dear was gone. Yum. I tried this amongst my ain kids when they were younger. We were inwards a shop that sold jars of dear amongst a hunk of the honeycomb inside. They weren't impressed. I gauge you lot had to go at that topographic point amongst the bees to appreciate it.
This guy had some dainty create for sale: carrots, beets, onions, tomatoes, several kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of kale, cabbage...you mention it, in addition to he in all probability had it.
This guy had dried fruits in addition to toasted nuts in addition to legumes inwards unlike flavors.
Here were jellies in addition to marinara sauce. The marinara sauce was tempting since we've used all viii quarts I brought amongst us on this trip.
The exclusively matter I bought were strawberries. Yum. Mike can't consume them, in addition to thus I bring these all to myself.
The farmers marketplace position comes every Tuesday afternoon. If at that topographic point are to a greater extent than strawberries side past times side week, I mightiness purchase plenty to brand 2 servings of strawberry shortcake, diet or no diet. I've been known to cutting the seeds off the strawberries thus Mike tin bring some too. I can't consume strawberry shortcake inwards forepart of him, in addition to I don't desire to become without either. Cutting off the seeds for him is a pocket-sized cost to pay.
Smitty kept a weather condition oculus out for the truthful cat side past times side door, in addition to at that topographic point it is! Just walking unopen to similar it owns the place. I'm telling you, the insults never cease unopen to here.
We've had Smitty out a yoke of times since he turned into Fang. We only brand certain the other truthful cat is nowhere inwards sight. It mightiness brand sense to inquire the other folks to proceed their truthful cat inwards for xv minutes or so, only to avoid whatsoever hard feelings...and past times "hard feelings," I hateful the feeling you lot larn when your paw is nearly bitten off.
The weather condition was lovely hither yesterday. It was the commencement fourth dimension this trip I've worn the shorts I brought along. In fact, the whole trip, I've worn exclusively long sleeves in addition to jeans, amongst the exception of i hateful solar daytime inwards New York City when I wore some capris. Now that's sad, don't you lot think? (I'm certain you lot Nor'easter people are crying your eyes out only nigh now.) Anyway...it's a lilliputian to a greater extent than overcast today, but we're even thus expecting temperatures into the high 70's. Time to leave of absence for my commencement walk of the day.