Took a Walk Around the Block

Went for a little stroll around the block today on a bright Sunday afternoon.  Since I live in a semi-rural area, a walk around my block is actually 3.4 miles according to my car odometer.

My goal is to walk around the block 3 days a week, in between all of my gardening.  I’ve been walking since January, when I had to dress up in all my wool deer hunting clothes so that I could walk when it was 5 degrees above zero.  At one point I was walking about 15 miles a week and developed shin-splints, an inflammation of the tendons along the front of the leg above the ankles, so I’ve cut it back to 10 miles a week or less.

The scenery is great since my route takes me past horse farms, cows out in the pasture, huge ponds, and old barns.  There’s always some kind of wildlife to see . . . today I saw a turtle bigger than a Frisbee sunning himself on a log in a pond.  On other occasions I’ve seen deer, rabbits, squirrels, ducks, and white swans.  This winter I even had a wild partridge walk right up to me in the road, and then walk alongside of me!

I took my camera along with me and snapped a few pictures.  Click on any of the thumbnail pictures below to open a full size picture in a new window.

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