For that reason, I've give him audiobooks while he walks. He honestly loves the economics & history lectures.
But today, even audiobooks aren't enough. We're "too slow"; he takes off and disappears over the hill. Note the white bag - we're being good Samaritans and picking up trash as we walk.
It must be frustrating for Jonathan when we stall over a Puncture Vine...
Do you see the sharp, fleshy spurs? They are in our house, they are in the soles of our shoes, in the animals' paws.
Star Thistle and Bindweed...
L & S pass us on their horses; it's a Sunday morning routine.
Seems the P's lost a family pet...
Maybe it was their pigeon. That bird would land on your head as you walked down the street.
Then blackberry picking...
...and admiring late thistle
How does it grow in this bone dry soil.
Acorn Woodpeckers jousting over a post. They don't give a hoot about humans - or anything else, except other Acorns. Madly social, and loud. This time of year they catch insects on the fly in graceful rolls.
It's a 2 hour walk. A bazillion things happen. This post doesn't scratch the surface.
Love that you walk with a garbage bag. This is something I started doing quite a while ago. It's ashame there's a need for this. -C
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