A Tidewater Gardener is hosting a Winter Walk contest...(I discovered this via a picturesque post over at Plantaliscious). You are to take a walk with your own two feet, and share what you see! One rule though: you can't show anything from your own yard.
What a spectacular idea! We share photos of our gardens so often; I have greatly enjoyed visiting the towns & vistas seen daily by other garden bloggers. And most of them are truly delightful!
So on a blustery March day, I bundled up the sweet beans and wefroze walked our short route around the neighborhood. My winter walk, alas, remains fairly stark. A few items of note:
1) It really does feel as bleak & chilly as it looks
2) Add a brisk bone-freezing breeze to the view
3) Did I mention we fairly flew through the walk while I was snapping pics on the run?
4) Brrrr.
What a spectacular idea! We share photos of our gardens so often; I have greatly enjoyed visiting the towns & vistas seen daily by other garden bloggers. And most of them are truly delightful!
So on a blustery March day, I bundled up the sweet beans and we
1) It really does feel as bleak & chilly as it looks
2) Add a brisk bone-freezing breeze to the view
3) Did I mention we fairly flew through the walk while I was snapping pics on the run?
4) Brrrr.
This is the view from our front porch. How sad I will be when they build houses there.
Down around the first curve we met the 4:00 bus. The Professor looked longingly at the mode of travel to the intellectual realms and the Tornado flagged down the driver with waves and shouts of "Hello!"
The sun sets through here in the wintertime and is stunning with hot pinks and bright oranges firing up behind the black trees. In the summer the sun sets further north and I can't see it as well from the house.
You can't see the road, but straight through here is where the deer tried to jump into my car last week. I am thankful that it's still winter and I had my windows up! My Wonderful Husband mentioned that a few days ago - what a shock to the system if the window was down and I suddenly had a deer in my lap.
A spot of mossy green! Hurrah! That was the only green I spotted on our walk. Just give it a month and then there will be green everywhere. :)
And the rest of the way home. This is the street behind our house.
All in all, we were on the road probably less than 10 minutes, but it was so good to be outside. Even if my limbs were close to falling off.
If I can remember to do a spring or summer walk, we can go the long way down to the lake or out on the country roads some and enjoy the cornfields. But, in early March, this was as far as we got!
Thanks for walking along with me! And do take a winter walk yourself, and post it over at A Tidewater Gardener! :)
Thank you so much for participating in my little challenge. I am glad you risked the cold and bleak weather with your camera and your little ones.
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny! I just took a gardening walk today, so I will post the pics tomorrow. I think it will fit several themes. Your description of your day is clever, as always!
ReplyDeleteHanni, I told Janet at Plantalicious that it would be a boring walk of snow and houses here so I promised I would take some walks to parks, the lake and the forever green area behind my house and maybe even my own garden walk...she is holding me to that promise...love your walk though...it was good to get outside and walk around my neighborhood yesterday...
ReplyDeleteThat does look cold! But I am so glad you did brave the frostbite to share it. For a Brit like me it is perfect to have the iconic yellow bus. You are lucky to have a stand of trees so close by. A walk down to the lake - in warmer weather - sounds lovely... Maybe they will forget to build the houses opposite?!
ReplyDeleteHanni, I enjoyed your walk. I have a lot of empty lots around my house as well, and like you, I will be sad when they actually start building on them. I have enjoyed not having so many close neighbors. Glad that you were able to get warm again. Hopefully spring will be arriving very soon for you.
ReplyDeleteHi there! What a wonderful way of discovering where other people live. I did a walk to the seafront, also spurred on by Plantilicious's post although envious of such beautiful countryside. I love American yellow buses!
ReplyDeleteRonnie
Nice tour, walking the neighborhood is fun for all. Great to see where people live, work and play.
ReplyDelete@Les - Thank YOU for coming up with the meme!
ReplyDelete@PP - I look forward to seeing your walk. :) And clever is not a word I would apply to myself, so thank you!
@Donna - yes, my walk is not that exciting, but glad you enjoyed it. I'll hold you to a promise to do a walk, too!
@Plantaliscious - glad you enjoyed the bus! It is faithful at 4:00 to pass by.
@Karin - I know...I am hoping that no one will want to buy the lots. :) Ever.
@Ronnie - I'll have to pop over and see your walk!
@GWGT - I have really enjoyed seeing all the walks too...
I would consider buying the lot directly in front. That way you control the view. However you might be like my friend who owns a vacant lot in a nice subdivision. Builders around it considered it was free for dumping debris since it wasn't theirs. He had to bring a lawsuit to get it cleaned up.
ReplyDeleteMy walk took in lots of green.