Today is a new day filled with new and old problems, but more importantly a new day with more possibilities. As I walked this morning the sun brought new radiance to everything it shined on. Not just the picture perfect setting but the fenced dog barking, and the house with stuff strewn all over the lawn.
Life is not what the movies portray where each setting captures what a director thinks is appropriate. Life is a mix of stuff. The ordinary and the magnificent. The closer I look the ordinary is usually magnificent too.
We took our usual walk through Water Street and Mark parted company in town. Noel and I walked over the low water bridge past the campground on our way to Palmyra Road. I wonder about the "whys" and one is a stone wall going up the hill from the campground. Perhaps the road went another way one time. Now it is covered over in the woods. No real function or reason? Why? There is probably a very good why.
The walk on Palmyra is a fantastic view. Edinburg Gap is ominous before us and rolling fields behind. The mountains and field have taken on so many colors this last winter. It is quite a show.
We cut down another side road that walks along the river. There are a few cottages but the river is wide, jumping over the rocks. Not exactly rapids but more like jumping.
We headed back on Palmyra and took the next road past an old park of some sort. My mother in law, Marie, remembers going there as kid with a pool and having picnics.
The subdivision up the road is a mix of small vacation houses with some that are now year round living. One yard I have another why. Why did they choose these particular plants and bushes? Were some gifts at Easter or did they plant them according to some scheme or was it an eclectic plan? It doesn't look like a plan was used but you had the sense they loved them. Perhaps the smells or color of the flowers. Some yards are barren suggesting no joy at all.
It was a nice walk. Try Palmyra Road sometime, you will enjoy it!
Keep walkin,
Ron
