Even though we have all sorts of things happening good and bad, the walk club enjoys each other and the beauty around us. The last couple of days the landscape has emerged green and lush. Spirea is in bloom, the lilacs are scenting the air and there is a hydrangea on one of the side streets that is phenomenal.
We met Linda a neighbor and friend who lives across from the hydrangea and she told us all about the history. The owner bought it and has restored it. Ned Irvin did the inside work and has a great reputation here in the burg. It belonged to her mother who was born in the house and lived to 100 years. They use it on weekends. There is also a huge magnolia in the backyard that could decorate a dozen homes at Christmas.
The best part of the walks here lately have been the fowl. They have been fruitful and multiplying. A pair of Chinese geese have 1 gosling and what a picture to see them swimming from the bridge on Rt. 11 with the baby in between.
Then there is a set of mallards who have almost a dozen little ones. We have seen them on Water Street and up by the Mill.
We also have a set of Canadian geese with a dozen or so, swimming at the end of Water Street in the Shenandoah River. They also have a third mature goose who sets watch as the sentry. When you get too close he starts the siren.
Altogether, a great time to walk and catch the new life abounding!
Keep walkin,
Ron
