Day 16 – The Great Outdoors
Good morning, friends!
We went on a run to catch some of the last sunrays of the day and thought we’d invite you to join us once again!
The challenge is simple today – just step out your front door 🙂
Go for a walk, stroll, jog, run, skip or dance around the block (or your garden!) and get a bit of fresh air. We needed it badly after quite a few days of night-owling about and missing out on daylight most of the time.
Please post a photo from your adventure in the comments or tell us how it went in writing. Perhaps you’ll be coming across something beautiful worth sharing with the rest of us here!
We send lots of festive greetings to all of you … only 9 days to go!
DAY 16 – OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
Task of the Day:
Go outside and enjoy the outdoors (& post a photo of it).
Achievable Points:
10
Just out walking in my neighbourhood.
Just a walk to the village park late at night.
Lunch time at work, overlooking the shipyard where I work. This day we got 15″ of fluffy snow.
Took a moment to get out of the city and enjoy God’s creation
Welcome to my surprise WINTER WONDERLAND!!!
https://youtu.be/6IiHQ9cvFIA
Hi Mona, hi Lisa .. Some days I was busy, other days it was rainy, I waited for this sunny Sunday to take the challenge walk in my neighborhood .. this is me in a square with the Church “Santa Joana D’arc” in the background.
It took awhile but finally got out today. No matter how good the play list or what video I have on my tablet, a treadmill just isn’t the same as a walk outside. Went to a county park today not far from my house.
Around the Finger Lakes Region of New York there are loads of variously sized streams feeding into the lakes. There are also many waterfalls, ranging from a couple of feet high to Taughannock Falls, which is over 200 feet high. You can find scenes like this all around this area.
Me and Maddie playing in the snow
Does being on site in Portland Port count? For this advent calendar day, I was away from home on a vessel mobilization in Portland Port UK and was out in the fresh air all day 😛 I managed to take the picture below 🙂
I’d be out on a ship like that one if it weren’t for the darned virus. Cruising.
Me too! I was mobilizing a cable laying vessel behind her, the cruise vessel was an eerie site as it was so dark and quiet around her.
Living in Sunny Florida I’m outdoors most everyday doing yardwork, errands or tending to business matters when they are necessary. However lately I’ve been enjoying feeding the birds and the bees as the days grow cooler and shorter and the bees have less flowers to hunt for nectar from. My maternal grandfather was a bee-keeper for a living and was a very successful apiarist (fancy word for beekeeper) with hundreds of hives all across central Florida during the 1920-60s. In fact in our house white sugar was only used by guests. My mother cooked with honey and we put it on everything and I mean everything. We finally used up my Grandfathers stock when I was about 12 years old and then we had to get our honey from other beekeepers. So while I never started any hives of my own I like to feed them sugar water which is pretty standard even when you have active hives during the lean months. They’ve gotten so used to me feeding them now they start heading for the feeder as soon as they see me coming towards it. I think I’ve made them into addicts but it’s fun to have them flying all around you and on you while their little buzzing wings fan you. Attached is a picture of my pets. See if you can find Waldo the Wasp. Enjoy!!
Haha, you turned them into sugar junkies! That’s a great story, and in a way it continues the family tradition! 🙂
I had some fun outside today. Perfect weather for snow sculpting.
Crazy. This time of year it’s usually almost freezing and raining and generally nasty. This year, for some reason, it keeps getting nicer and nicer as Christmas approaches. Today was sunny and a (relatively) warm 55F (13C for the rest of the world). This is what the skies looked like:
Managed to escape for a couple of hours for a walk through the local wood. Really peaceful and still. Made such a difference to my day.
That looks so beautiful and tranquil!
Reposting this comment to hopefully include pics
Went for a walk and the temperature was around 60 degrees (BURR!!!!).So used to the triple digits still. Anyway it did feel good to get some fresh air & see a lot of people out and about also walking. I am having trouble posting my picture again today. Is anyone else having this problem? I need as many points as I can get!!
Still does not work!!!!
Lisa and Mona said that “Papa Rudi fixed it” referring to the upload problem. Thank you, Rudi!!! Here is my picture from yesterday. I do enjoy getting outside. Right now it is Cold and Cloudy here in Columbus, Georgia, USA. Yesterday it was drizzling rain, but not when my wife and I went for a walk. Today it is thirty-seven degrees and supposed to drop to twenty-nine. For us, THAT is cold. Jacki is probably laughing, she knows what real cold is, but here it is unusual to get that cold and once you get acclimated to this climate…
Anyhow, there is a link in my first clip that takes you a short YouTube video clip of me saying “Hi, from Columbus, Georgia USA.” I did that since I couldn’t post the picture below. I hope everyone stays warm, stays healthy and stays safe. Have a Very Merry Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate. Peace, Love, Happiness and Hope! 🙂
Stay Groovy,
Jerry
Hey, I’d gladly would tolerate ” Your Georgia Kinda cold over Canadian Winter cold any time… I’m a Summer Gal…I’m not keen on Winter…lol…..
The day of Great Outdoor Task, it was frikkin -20 to -24ish degrees celcius, with windchill…. Those kind of temps usually arrive in January/February, not now… even Mother Nature I think, has signs of Covid or NaturePause….lol… my hand practically froze while trying to take photo… warmed up hands with hot water when I got home and had a nice hot cup of tea
Thanks for sending that video – a big “hello” right back to Georgia!
Brrr … 29F is pretty cold if you ask me! 😉
I had just finished mailing our Christmas packages this morning when I read today’s challenge, and I was ready to get out of the house. I headed out to do some geocaching ( https://www.geocaching.com ). I went to a place called Kilbourne Hole ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbourne_Hole ), a large 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 mile volcanic blast crater out in the New Mexico desert. It’s hard to get a good picture from the ground, and most of us don’t have a drone helicopter, but I’m posting as good of a picture as I could get from the edge of the crater. From the air, the hole looks like a meteor crater, but the scientists say it is not.
Note: The picture would not load until I cut in down to about 100k bytes.
I love the New Mexico desert – I lived in Carlsbad for 7 years.
We’ve been to see “Christmas on the Pecos” in Carlsbad. We nearly froze, but we thoroughly enjoyed it. If we can ever talk the Wagner family into visiting New Mexico, Carlsbad would have to be a stop – nearby Carlsbad Caverns National Park is one of the New Mexico’s must see places. I also loved the hiking in nearby Guadalupe Mountains National Park just across the Texas border.
Beautiful scenery. Love the desert too.
During these short winter days it’s dark when I leave and dark when I return. It was cloudy all day, so a walk in the sun was out of the question. We knew a snowstorm was headed our way.
Today we woke up to twenty inches of snow. So getting out for some fresh air meant clearing two driveways.
JP
Finally! I followed everyone’s suggestions about clearing my browser and resizing the photo and al last it attached! Thank you everyone. This is the photo I described in my earlier post of a walk in the cemetery with Meriel, my daughter.
Yes, sorry about the upload issues earlier, it should all be fixed now! We love your daughter’s outfit, that jacket is awesome!
Hi
Eventually managed to attach the picture I kept trying to do yesterday, had to make it really small and change browser, so this is the view yesterday on a grey and wet day from our garden in Yorkshire. The view says it all.
Trying to post the picture again for the great outdoors… Now I got it! It has to be resized to a very small file size!
Dad found out about the bug in WordPress in conjunction with our kind of server that caused these problems and normal-sized photos should work again now, sorry about that! Great place to have fun with your dog!
Saw a nice red shouldered hawk while out walking the dog today. He’s pretty puffed up trying to stay warm since it was only about 45(F) (about 7C) today. We usually get in about 5 miles a day (in 3 walks) in the park that’s about 4 blocks from the house. I’m trying to post the picture but it won’t attach.
Hi Jim, try clearing the cache in your web browser.
In Google Chrome, go to settings > scroll down to Privacy/Security section, then select “clear browsing data”.
I tried it all, and nothing worked so I figured it was on the admin side of the website. I even resized the pic down to 150Kb and it still wouldn’t post. I don’t use Chrome – too many snoopers that you can’t turn off.
Finally – here’s the hawk!
Nice shot Jim. Magnificent hawk.
you made me go out on one of the coldest nasty days but then I remembered I can listen to your music when I get home so all is good
Pic uploaded as a thumbnail. Hope it enlarges when I hit the post button. Anyway…view from my backyard looking toward Yellow Creek. The deer that were absent when I took the pic were just eating birdseed in my backyard. Oh, well.
Yay…Successful photo upload…. for whatever reason, it wasn’t working before, it works now for time being for me to upload pix….
It’s working for me now, too. I emptied my browser cache as suggested, but I don’t know if that helped or if something got fixed in the meantime.????
Glad to hear Jeff ????
Okay, shall I try yet again, hoping it will upload the photo this time round..
Earlier today before it got dark around 4:30-5pm, I went downtown to do some errands and see what’s going on, while walking down the street, this new place caught my eye, well the signage did, though clearly it’s all about Mona, there are essences of Lisa too???????? …here’s proof I had seen it:
Hey Jacki, it looks kind of cold where you are! Cool picture, thanks for sharing it!
Congrats, you got the upload working. 🙂
It’s kind of chilly here today, 20 (I think that’s -6 celsius)
We are supposed to get close to a foot of snow tonight (30 cm?)
Here is a shot of deer in my backyard, and one of my birdfeeders
(the attach finally works!)
24 degrees here in Massachusetts and expecting over a foot of snow in the next 24hrs.
Tried to get out a little in the bitter cold and found this little holly tree in the woods. Very Christmas-sy!
I went for a walk around the square where I live looking at the Sights and Sounds of Christmas. Some nice decorations and a pretty tree.
Wanted to give you all a bit of a laugh, so I included Skinny Claus.????
My favorite time of the year. Temps are 10*c for highs and -11*c for lows the last two weeks. A bit unusual for us. I like it however. Feels more like Christmas.
As my fellow “Tar Heels” have pointed out, we’ve been having freezing rain, though it’s 35°F / 2°C where I’m at, it’s still prettier to look at, rather than to engage with it.
Here’s a picture from my back porch. Tomorrow should be better weather, so I’ll venture out then 🙂
Today was a much nicer day, and went to one of my favorite spots watch here
Merry Christmas from all of us too, thanks for that little video!! (Nice hoodie ;-))
It’s a Groovy Hoodie! ????
I went out and moved some snow around in my front yard. It was too cold to work on a sculpture (has to be above freezing, preferably close to 5 degrees C), but hopefully I will have something fun to share in a day or two.
Yes, please keep us updated, we’d love to see your creation!
Here you go
The sun where I am was nowhere to be seen today, but was able to find a break in the rain to go for a nice refreshing walk around the neighbourhood, past the local elementary school with kids out enjoying the lunch break, and then out to my local lake where there was not a soul in sight, other than some ducks. Thanks Mona and Lisa for getting me to go outside for a nice break! 🙂
Pictures worked this time. Must have been the internet clutter in my browser I cleared out.
I hope you can feel the serene atmosphere at the lake. My favourite escape when I want to be alone. Well except for the ducks making some commotion amongst themselves. I think the colorful greenish male ducks were competing for the attention of some of the lady ducks! They all seemed to follow me as I walked along trail.
https://youtu.be/dAe5SxmrdVU
Ok, trying again to see if the photo will upload…and a definite…Nope…. darn it all… I’ll try again in awhile…
This is a photo of Meriel, my daughter, on our morning walk. We often choose to walk in a nearby cemetery. It is very beautiful – an amazing variety of trees – very peaceful, and full of so many interesting tombstones. We love to wonder about the lives of all those whose names and tributes we read. It is very cold here today but no snow. I think that Meriel looks very Christmasy, even with the mask!
My photo won’t upload!
Trying clearing the cache in your internet browser, and then upload.
In Google Chrome, go to settings > scroll down to Privacy/Security section, then select “clear browsing data”.
Thanks, I’ll try that.
Ok, the photo wouldn’t upload on here when I clicked on attachment icon…let me try again….
Earlier today before it got dark around 4:30-5pm, I went downtown to do some errands and see what’s going on, while walking down the street, this new place caught my eye, well the signage did, though clearly it’s all about Mona, there are essences of Lisa too???????? …here’s proof I had seen it:
Ok, photo upload not working for me
Darn it, still can’t get it to upload
Mine won’t upload either!
Oh no Jeanette…I can’t either
I tried uploading it by replying to myself – that worked last time I had trouble, but not this time.
I tried that too…still no go
Trying clearing the cache in your internet browser, and then upload.
In Google Chrome, go to settings > scroll down to Privacy/Security section, then select “clear browsing data”.
Thanks for tip Jung, I’ll try that on both my Android phone/tabletvto see if that will work….
I was out doing errands earlier today before it became dark around 4:30-5:00 pm in Ottawa and I decided to go downtown to see what’s going on while about my errands….and this new place upon my walking down the sidewalk caught my eye…Though it (signage )does have Essences of Lisa but clearly it was about Mona…lol…and proof I saw it…
I love the outdoors. Especially when we lived ten minutes from the Isle of Palms beach in South Carolina and could go over to The Citadel Beach House and enjoy the fresh salt air from the ocean. But, I love living here in Georgia near family. And there’s always the River Alan Jackson made famous, the Chattahoochee, with his song back in 1993. We sometimes go down to the River Walk. But today I went walking with my wife around the neighborhood. There are a lot of trees, bushes and plants to enjoy year around. Of course, it’s all much prettier in the Spring. This picture is a couple of streets over from our house. We don’t walk far or for very long, only about twenty minutes, but I am thankful for that. I wasn’t able to walk for several years and it feels really good to be able to go for walks with Laurie (my wife, and photographer) again. 🙂
I’m not able to upload a picture?
https://youtu.be/prd7E0xXYN4
Just took a stroll around my back yard here in Freeport, Illinois. The view I took a pic of often has a few deer hanging around, but no such luck tonight. Beyond the grassland Yellow Creek runs along the treeline, and that’s where Yellow Creek Ct. (where I live) gets its name. Thanks for the great suggestion, ladies! I’m gonna try to do it more often!
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I can’t seem to get any pics to upload lately. I’ll keep trying.
Pics loading now! ????
The deer showed up so I snapped a quick pic.
Went for a walk and the temperature was around 60 degrees (BURR!!!!).So used to the triple digits still. Anyway it did feel good to get some fresh air & see a lot of people out and about also walking. I am having trouble posting my picture again today. Is anyone else having this problem? I need as many points as I can get!!!!
Hi Ron, I also have the same problem
I, too haven’t been able to upload pics for several days, now.
Yes, same problem here.
Yes, same issue…can’t upload pix either
And me – as I mentioned in my post.
I did a little walk to the City Port (Stadthafen) in Leipzig which is situated near the city centre and is based on a canal which is being brought step-by-step into the open since several years. I would have loved to post a photo here, but the upload didn’t work, so I did it on “Google Photos”: https://photos.app.goo.gl/daemWz6kjd11coW37 .
Well, I took the challenge for today and made this my early new years resolution to start walking again. I made it 1 mile or 1.5 km today. It was a nice to get out of the stuffy house too. I took my walk here to be sure I would not lose my way!! (I was on train tracks but my pic failed).
Bummer, my pic did not attach… ugh. Is there a secret to this?
This is me enjoying a day out with Elaine my VW Beetle, and me 51 years ago sitting on my VW Beetle. LOL !! 🙂 (O) \ | / (O)
Great pictures Micky, priceless. Love Elaine, what a classic beauty, and red too, my fave color on wheels!
Haha, you both grew up a lot! ????
As I walk to and from work (25 mins each way) this should be an easy challenge. But I don’t work on Wednesdays, musicians are supposed to have good timing you know M & L! So I’ll add photos tomorrow of my walk to work, sadly there is not a lot of nice scenery in this part of north London but I’ll do my best.
However I was planning on having a walk this evening anyway to try and capture some photos to add to my contribution for day 3. I had already tried to do this one evening last week which was misty and atmospheric. Unfortunately the mist just made all the lights glare so I didn’t use any of the photos.
As it was tipping down around 5 o’clock I left my walk for a while to let things dry up a little once the rain had stopped. I’ve attached 2 of the photos I took. (Prettyplease, can these be used to earn me points for day 3 (if I haven’t got the full quota) and the ones I add for tomorrow’s walk to work earn them for today. Ta.) One is of a lit snowman in a garden (no snow just lights) and one is of the lights along Whetstone High Street).
It was a bit parky out there, as the cold front has come through, so my walk was not as long as I anticipated. To make up for this I’m now going to use my exercise bike for a while. You’re not having photos of that though!
Edit. I can’t get the photo of the snowman to load so I’ll go out and take another one tomorrow evening and have another go.
Hello. I’m still not able to upload the snowman photo nor the one for my walk today. I’ve tried clearing my Google cache and have also tried doing so using Edge instead of Google but still rien! Any other suggestions please.
Whoopee they’ve loaded. Dankeschon (sorry but I don’t have an umlaut on my keyboard) Papa Rudi.
Here is the snowman, it is a all lights, no snow.
Also on my walk to and from work I pass All Saints Church Whetstone which has a rather impressive spire and so is the evidence of my walk. Good job that I took it yesterday as it has been the only sunny day in the last three. I tried to be a bit arty-farty and have a backlight effect, with minimal success.
I needed to do this today, I usually try to get out for a 4 to 6 mile walk or a 10 to 15 mile bike ride but bad weather kept me in a few days. Today was cold (23°F/-5°C) but otherwise better.
Most of the 360 miles of the old Erie Canal across New York State is now a recreation trail. There are some gaps where the canal trail hasn’t been built yet, including in Syracuse, but a couple months ago a new segment was finished close to my home which decreases that gap. I’ve been on the new segment a lot lately and was there today along with the older section to the west where there’s a restored and navigable aqueduct dating from 1842.
I was surprised the canal’s starting to ice over. I didn’t think it’d been cold enough long enough. Near the parking lot there’s an outflow keeping it from freezing over and all the ducks were congregated there.
No major snow yet this winter but we’ll get a few inches tonight. It started falling just before I completed my 6.5 miles.
Forum software is not succeeding at uploading photos. I posted them to https://doctroid.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/canal-walk/ instead.
Trying again with pictures under 100 kB…
Lovely photos, Rich!
My first ancestor to come to America did so in 1820 and landed a job on the construction crew for the Erie Canal. One of my bucket list objectives is to visit the canal someday and see if he did the family proud.
Tough day for this challenge here – unusually cold and rainy. Did make it out to fill the bird feeder and check on the growing vegetables in the cold frame. Hope this counts. Will try a real walk this weekend if weather breaks. Cheers.
Yes, that absolutely counts! 🙂 Those vegetables seem perfectly happy in the cold, what troopers! May they get big and strong next year!
I went for a walk on a cemetery in my neighbourhood today. I live in one of the central boroughs of Berlin. There is a huge park nearby, but sometimes it’s a bit crowded and hectic. So if I want to get some fresh air and go to a place that is a bit more quiet, I like to go to that cemetery. I hope this doesn’t offend anyone. I like to go there in spring to see wild flowers starting to grow or in autumn to watch some busy squirrels. I don’t know anyone who is buried there, but I do like to read the names and look at the graves, which in Germany often look like flowerbeds. Some parts of the cemetery are older and not really used anymore, so it’s a bit like having some actual wilderness in the middle of the city. On my walk today, I spotted (and heard) a woodpecker!
I like to walk in cemeteries too. I find the tombstones so interesting and it is very moving to think of all the lives lived, all the stories.
I used to live across 3 cemetaries when I was a kid, at my childhood home and some relatives are buried in one ( my parents now as well) and would often go walking or riding my bike in the cemetaries on the roadway…
Home from work now and walked to this bridge. About 20 minute walk from my house. This is the Erie Canal in my town of Albion. It’s a nice place to walk down, you can see the walking path. When I was a kid the towpath was all grass and trees lining the canal.
That makes two of us on the Erie Canal today!
Wow, what an Erie coincidence!
How cool, that you’re both walking along the same canal, passing the same water. Small world 🙂 It looks like a nice walk!
Wow! Nice walking path!
Hey Gary…having grown up in Syracuse NY I know that Erie Canal…one of the main streets coming off Route 5 and leading into downtown Syracuse is / was Erie Blvd…I actually grew up in Camillus on the west side of Syracuse and me and the boys would go fishing.
In the snow finally got it right
It’s kind of chilly here today, 20 (I think that’s -6 celsius)
We are supposed to get close to a foot of snow tonight (30 cm?)
Here is a shot of deer in my backyard, and one of my birdfeeders
(sigh, I can’t attach photos today, I don’t know why, I usually have no problem, I will try again later)
I just returned from my second walk this morning; inspired by today’s task, I chose to visit a park and boat landing on the Fox River, which forms the southern border of the community in which I live. I find such spiritual peace and serenity near the water, and am grateful for the opportunity to just stand in silence and watch the current of the river. Winter has not yet tightly grasped the area, so there is ice only near the shore and a think blanket of snow on the ground. They are difficult to see in the photo, but some ducks were floating along, just outside the edge of the ice. During the summer months, this river scene would be teeming with many different kinds of birds (eagles and pelicans are my favorites) and people in kayaks, canoes, motorboats, and other pleasure watercraft. As a blessing to me, winter’s chill provided for me this morning a peaceful solitude in which to contemplate how fortunate I really am.
Looks like a beautiful place. I would have loved to go kayaking there when I was younger, but only in the Spring or Summer. Not a big fan of cold weather, and to me, anything below sixty degrees is cold. 🙂
It’s almost dark and also raining here in London, but we finally got a chance to go outside. We took funny hats to turn our adventure into a kind of performance.
Hello Ivan and Sasha,
Not a good day for going out here in London was it this afternoon! Now that we are in tier 3 I’m going to try to avoid going out during the daytime, apart from going to work.
When (if) everything has calmed down meeting in Camden Town would be fine for me. Just a trip on the Northern Line but your trip from Bromley would be a bit awkward. I’ll look into another suggestion as I can access Thameslink trains quite easily (train from Oakleigh Park to Finsbury Park).
Hi Philip! You are absolutely right. Initially, I was looking into that we could meet somewhen in between Christmas and New Year. But things are changing so fast! And under new circumstances, it’s better to avoid any public places or commuting without any essential need. We can postpone our meeting, there is no rush.
Thank you for looking for alternative locations. Yes, I suggested Camden Town for your easy access and also for its rock-and-roll spirit. But we are dwelling in the times when it’s better to meet outdoors. I live in two steps from the Orpington station, in case if you are going to build directions. Yes, we have a Thameslink service here towards Kentish town via Finsbury Park… Or we had. Can’t see it anymore at Google. Seems like I will need to change at London Bridge from SouthEasten to Thameslink, but that’s not a big issue.
The rain is over and we performed the quest Sasha has been given in her school. Coincidently to be complete the same day as MLT outdoors challenge. 🙂 We had to run through the local area chasing Santas and finding letters around them. When we had to compose the letter to decode a phrase from Santa. We have been given a map of approximate locations to search around. That was fun and exciting. However, Sasha has already guessed the right answer yet before we left home, she just counted the number of locations for this. 🙂
Failed to attach a picture, trying again…
In North Carolina we’re getting hit by the same storm that’s dumping snow on the northeastern U.S. Fortunately it’s just freezing rain here, but still it’s not a nice day for a stroll.
When this topic arose in last year’s advent calendar I mentioned that I took a 70-minute walk in my neighborhood nearly every evening, just for the health of it. I’ve been keeping that up, plus now on weekend afternoons I do an 80-minute round-trip in the opposite direction to the grocery, which only became possible this summer when they widened a major traffic artery and added a sidewalk.
Even though a car is considered a symbol of freedom, when you use one primarily just to go to work and run errands it becomes more of an enforcer of obligations. I actually find it very liberating to walk to the grocery and realize that my survival doesn’t depend entirely on an expensive piece of machinery. Plus I can say that I’ve added weightlifting to my exercise routine.
You inspire me my N.C. brother!!! I use to walk a lot but have got lazy. I think Ill start again!
I walked up town and took this pic of City Hall.
Once again I can’t figure out how to post pictures but I can say that I try to get outside at least once a day. We live in a condo complex that has a path around it (about a half a mile) which goes past our pond with several geese and ducks (who haven’t flown south for the winter yet). It’s good to get some of that vitamin D from the sunlight! I just walk, I never run. As the joke goes if you see me running you better get running yourself cause somethings chasing me!
Good morning, I usually don’t go for a walk in the morning, but if I do it is only for 20 minutes and here in the neighborhood, at this time (5:00 am) some of the neighbors are still sleeping and some others are already going out to work
I could not attach the photos of evidence of my tour
here I share something of the morning tour, later I went out for tortillas for breakfast
Nice pictures – sounds like a great breakfast!
Due to the never ending rain here in Lancaster, UK, it was a quick sprint (I wish! LOL) to the local Big Stone on the edge of the moorlands near my home. Climbing up those slippery carved rocks in the wet was a bit of a hazard for me, but worth it just to get this wintertime photo. In the summer this is a beautiful location and very ancient too.
Cool! (No pun intended for sure.) That looks precariously dangerous. Not sure I would have attempted that climb, but I can fall walking on a plain flat sidewalk. 🙂
Well we’re going to be getting a HUGE snowstorm here in N.Y. starting this afternoon. 18 inches or more they say. UGH! So I’ll be outside snowblowing and shovelling. Not fun but oh well. No photo but take my word for it!
Just started in Syracuse, we’re supposed to get only about 4 inches overnight.
Wow, don’t love cold weather. I do like a nice, once every few years, Southern, snow of about an inch or two. But, eighteen inches, no thank you! And, Rich even four inches is a lot here in Columbus, Georgia. My Mother-In-Law grew up in Syracuse. She’s ninety-three and suffers with Alzheimers disease. Before she got sick she talked about how much she loved to go sledding down the hills and skating on a lake, when she was a kid. At least that part sounds like fun.
We believe you! Snow shovelling is the only chore that I genuinely love doing (it’s just a shame that it hardly ever snows here!). It’s like the adult’s version of playing in the snow, only that you can throw out your back really easily 😉
It just so happens that we are in for a snow storm today so me and Maddie are going to be sled riding and making snow angels so I will take photos and post, I can’t wait it is starting to snow now
Is anyone else having problems attaching a photo?
I have a picture ready to attach. I am over in Yorkshire and it is grey and miserable today but the picture would show the view from my garden over fields, and it makes it all worthwhile.
Michael, I have a keen interest in Yorkshire… wish we could talk! Im sure it is beautiful there… grey skies an all.
Kevin – it is and I tried attaching the same view today, with the sun out, but still not able to do it.
Yeah, I’ve posted photos here before but today no luck. It just swallows them up and doesn’t show them. I posted a link to my pics on my blog instead.
Yes Michael I am having trouble attaching a photo as well. One was successful but the other just keeps failing. I’ve cropped it and thought that this might be the problem. As I also cropped the other photo, to a much lesser degree, I doubt it though.
Totally the same with me. The first photo went well to my first post. But I can’t attach anymore to my comments. Also tried to decrease the size considerably…
We went for a walk to the outdoors museum area in Urajärvi, Finland. The manor museum is closed for the winter, but there’s still a lot to see. And, this being the off-season period, we didn’t meet anyone on the walking tracks. The lake is beginning to freeze over. Our dog, Rolfie, adopted four years ago, also enjoyed the freedom off leash. For some reason I’m unable to attach a photo of the trek to this post, so I’ll post it as a background picture for my account.
This is from yesterday evening but it´s really awesome. Me and my friend were walking the dog when we have a little chat with this “snowman” getting ready to go cycling !
My walk of the day is already over. I walk to our local co-op to buy papers, milk and bananas around 7am (the co-op opens at 6am), in the dark, takes me just under 15 minutes each way. But it’s a bit like Groundhog Day as I see the same people and things most days – the dog walkers, the joggers, the workmen waiting on van lifts to take them to sites in and around Perth, the buses (my walk takes in the 1s and 2s and the 70 routes), the night shift workers getting off buses on their way home to sleep, the NHS staff waiting to get on for another day shift at our local infirmary, the staff in the co-op who unpack the newspapers and the bread rolls and re-stock the shelves, the regular customers in the co-op and the nearby bakery which also opens before 7, buying breakfasts or other food for later in the day, the tractor driver who’s on his way to one of the surrounding farms, and some familiar vans and cars which drive along at the same times every weekday. Few words are spoken – an NHS nurse and I have been saying “Morning” to each other since March. When either of us misses a day through being early or late or on another shift, the next time we meet-and-greet it’s “Morning, missed you yesterday.” The in-store co-op staff have noted that I no longer buy bread rolls every day (too fattening at my age), but they do know on a Sunday that I like to buy one “well-fired” roll and one “healthy with seeds” roll, and they’re put aside in a single re-usable plastic bag for me under the roll trolley, as all the other bags contain two or four of each type of bread roll. I use the self-service till, so there’s no interaction there, but one day when I left one of my newspapers on the scales, the shop assistant put it aside for me and she called me over to hand it to me the following day. I don’t know their names, and I don’t suppose they know mine either. It’s just one side of one story from me during these pandemical times.
That was pretty insightful Derek. Life has adjusted for most people in this pandemic. Wouldn’t it be grand if we could all just go out and buy a ticket to see MLT playing at a nice venue?! I glad you have at least been able to make friends on your way. Stay healthy, happy, and groovy !
Yes, a similar routine to me too Derek. Time seems to have stopped still out there. A bit weird really….