Hiking: Deer Lakes Park
Or I should really say, "hiking" (imagine me miming quotation marks with my fingers as I say that). It was so sunny and nice out today, we wanted to go on a hike. But since we were limited on time by friends who wanted to join us, but couldn't until later, we didn't get out until close to 4:30. We also needed to find a close enough park to have enough time outside, we settled on Deer Lakes Park.
We walked around two of the small lakes, on the GPS our path is a small infinity sign. The ambling 0.9 mile walk over the slick muddy ground was punctuated frequently for photography stops and for skipping stones over the thin layer of ice still on the surface of the water on one end of the lake, some of the stones landing neatly on the surface. Standing still, we could see the wind slowly moving the entire sheet of ice. We stopped to visit with the Canada geese and Mallard ducks who eagerly swam to our end of the lake hoping for a snack, which we didn't have anything to offer. The empty boxes of saltines and bread wrappers in the garbage nearby tells me why they were looking at us so expectantly. There was also a Kingfisher keeping us company twittering and skimming over the water's surface.
Even though it was a short walk, it was still nice to get outside.
We walked around two of the small lakes, on the GPS our path is a small infinity sign. The ambling 0.9 mile walk over the slick muddy ground was punctuated frequently for photography stops and for skipping stones over the thin layer of ice still on the surface of the water on one end of the lake, some of the stones landing neatly on the surface. Standing still, we could see the wind slowly moving the entire sheet of ice. We stopped to visit with the Canada geese and Mallard ducks who eagerly swam to our end of the lake hoping for a snack, which we didn't have anything to offer. The empty boxes of saltines and bread wrappers in the garbage nearby tells me why they were looking at us so expectantly. There was also a Kingfisher keeping us company twittering and skimming over the water's surface.
Even though it was a short walk, it was still nice to get outside.