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What a glorious looking day! I always enjoy seeing that cobbled path !After workout in the gym I had enough energy left for a walk. Gorgeous weather.
And I was thrilled to see these heralds of spring during my lunch time walk a few days ago! They're starting to pop up all over Victoria. Snow Drops, also known as, as I've just learned... Fair Maids of February, Purification Flower, Candlemas Bells, Candlemas Lilly and my favourite...Little Sister of the SnowsI love the frozen photos, but I confess to a leap of delight on seeing these in a local park...I did not expect them this early in the year. Leap is figurative, by the way.
...that makes 11.909 kilometers according to google... roughly 3 hours walk? Hi there @MontanaBill.Missoula Montana, 7.4 miles.
...that makes 11.909 kilometers according to google... roughly 3 hours walk? Hi there @MontanaBill.
Last evening in the hills above Los Angeles at sunset with the L.A. skyline in the background...
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...from Cambes-de-Pujols around Le Vallon du Ruisseau-de-Lalande, with a shortcut. (10 kms). Circuit no. 330, Lot et Garonne
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Église Notre-Dame, Cambes-de-Pujols
BonjourDid some research on the Église Notre-Dame, Cambes-de-Pujols. Just wonderful. Can you visit it on certain times?
Hmmm... what's a 'Finn Spin'?
...so it's not about fishing!A ride with our dog Finn just to stretch his legs -- it's an efficient way to get him some action which he needs. He's tethered, and he doesn't try to cross in front of me, so it works well.
females have a low guttural call that sounds like they are annoyed with something.
A beautiful walk today up the Kilpatrick Hills to Loch Humphrey north of Clydebank in Scotland. I haven’t walked up here for months and it was good to get on this type of terrain to prepare me for the Camino del Norte in September.
It was 10 mile door to door. We plan to do this walk 2 or 3 times a day over the spring & summer.
The boat in the photo is sailing up the Clyde to Glasgow.
Not sure how they never appeared as thumbnails, must practice a bit.Unfortunately cannot open the pictures.
Because it is close to my heart, I wanted to see them. I managed on my phone.A beautiful walk today up the Kilpatrick Hills to Loch Humphrey north of Clydebank in Scotland. I haven’t walked up here for months and it was good to get on this type of terrain to prepare me for the Camino del Norte in September.
It was 10 mile door to door. We plan to do this walk 2 or 3 times a day over the spring & summer.
The boat in the photo is sailing up the Clyde to Glasgow.
Yes, regarding the light here it feels almost like spring! Strange, isn't it ;-) It amazes me every year how fast it all changes.The sun is coming back, here in South of Norway we today have daylight until 5pm
And looking at the video I was wondering where the people were.According to Instagram [New Chums Beach] is one of the top ten beaches in the world.
Well, that explains it.I have neither and so like all the other people who don't have helicopters or boats we walk this trail to get there.
Fifty years ago I took a wildlife management course in college (way outside my major). A paper was assigned on an endangered series. Bald eagles and perrigrin falcons were two. They have come back well enough that I've seen both land in trees in my yard in suburban Boston. I wrote on the likely extinct black-footed ferret. Some time ago a dog brought dead one to a rancher who recognized and reported it. Others were found in the area. With management there are now enough that the wildlife people rent them to ranchers to keep prairie dogs under control.When I was a child in the 1960s the entire UK red kite population was about 20. Confined to a couple of very remote valleys in mid-Wales. Now in their thousands and covering a lot of the UK. One of the iconic species for wildlife conservation.
Walking the Camino Frances in January last year I saw quite a lot of the very dense webs that processionary caterpillars make in trees. My Canadian companion on one day had never encountered them before. Well worth keeping a safe distance from any very dense gossamer webs you find in Spain. Very nasty things to bump into.The cobweb encounters are a bonus. Especially later in the year when she's not as happy to walk into any.
Oops, that smell can drive male dogs crazy from a long distance, I know, and same house with a pubertal one, oops trouble.I took our white lady to the mountains as she is in season and it just does not work out well at home with a young male dog who just discovers his hormones. So she and I are sort of outcasts, hiding in a cabin far away from home
After yesterday's heavy storm, today the weather was just perfect for a short walk to Nikkaluokta chapel, located at a scenic spot on the local hill.
@Bradypus, you may be interested in reading a bit about the cycle path poem here:Another walk down the line of the old - very old! - Carmarthenshire railway which is now a cycle path from Cross Hands to Llanelli.
On my first Camino I met perhaps 30 other pilgrims over 800km and spent many nights in refugios alone. When I got back to the UK a friend asked if it had been a lonely experience and at first I could not even understand the question. The awareness of previous generations had been so powerful that I never once felt lonely. Much the same feeling walking on a path which was built more than 200 years ago and has seen many changes over the years.I looked for an easier to read version of that poem as the idea of following the tracks of those who went before appealed to me.
How do you spell jealous?...just catching my breath. Here's a little of what I've been doing lately:
*From near Rochester to Canterbury Cathedral: 3 muddy days along the North Downs then a corrugated heave over the Stour Valley ....
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..In a village somewhere beyond.... there is a woman known for her kindness to strangers and pilgrims. She has worked amongst prisoners and asylum seekers, established an orchestra, filled an old 18th/19th century town house with interesting books and simple treasures. A friend of hers who believes in a higher power that guides the feet of those who 'listen' and causes paths of like minded souls to cross, smiled when I asked if there might be anywhere for a pilgrim to shelter in the village. Yes, she said, Follow me...
...so, there I was, happy as can be dining in a high-ceilinged room on omelettes, mushrooms, new potatoes and salad, ginger pudding with stewed rhubarb smothered in cream followed by lemony ethiopian coffee, zooming along a myriad of conversational threads with an elderly angel. Oh, what fun!
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That day the sun appeared with icy blasts from the East...
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(Turn the volume up ...)
...c-l-e-a-n-c-l-o-t-h-e-s...How do you spell jealous?
@CA_Pilgrim that’s some spectacular acreage. The Mission Trail is on my list.I've hike roughly the first 350 miles of the California Mission Trail. So far I've been to 9 of the 21 missions from Mission San Diego to Mission La Purisima. This is the second time I've done the mission hike. I completed the entire 800+ mile trail in 2014/2015. Currently taking some time off. My wife and I are planning a May/June Portuguese Camino. This will be my second Camino, I did the CF in 2022 starting in SJPDP.
The Mission Trail took me through some amazing sites, along the Pacific Ocean, through LA, and the agricultural fields of the the Central Coast (where I live). Attached are just a handful of photos that i took along the way. I substantially compressed the photos to save on system resources, but they should be good for computer viewing. Enjoy!
Those petroglyphs are quite nice to see @TheatregalA day off hike in East Sooke along the Coastal Trail on Vancouver Island. Intermittent rain, beautiful Arbutus trees, a seal petroglyph and a little rock nest beside the path.
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Beautiful old vessel.. it looks like the 'Albatross', a lightship that was moored together with the 'Coningbeg' two miles away in Dun Laoghaire harbour, throughout my childhood. I would listen to the foghorns at night lying in bed, echoing across the bay..Down at the Docks.
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We went part way up The Reek (Crough Patrick) six months ago and in good weather. I posted about it in last year's thread.What better way to honour Saint Patrick than to climb The Reek.
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