I’ve often felt I was the slowest one on this path, there are bikes, skateboards, scooters, and electric versions of the same even moms with carriages, a few walkers and walking sticks, there are fast walkers, dog walkers, and runners to boot and they all seem to pass me at one point or another. now i’m not complaining, I’m merely observing. I think the faster you go, you miss a lot. I like to think, I go at the pace that my eyes adjust naturally to, I am able to turn my head as I walk and change my focus from the foreground, to the horizon and everywhere in-between, and I stop when something pops out at me, invariably this will seem to be something entirely new to me, either it is something I just never noticed before, or something as simple as the lighting has changed, but each day, at the pace I take, I find something unexpected, so I expect other people have done studies on this phenomena, there is, perhaps, a ratio to the eye to brain patterns that changes, with a change of pace. Just a thought
So, without further ado here is what was new today on my park walk
The day got close to 79° which is hot for here and this time of year, So I ventured on a side path in more forested shade, On the entire hillside was a solitary blooming Pacific Trillium Ovatum. Down at my feet there was a growing patch of Stinging Nettles, with profuse Galium Aparține (better know as Cleavers), in among decaying leaves And one sunlit enhanced Giant Western Swordfern Each plant a beauty in its own right,
As I stepped away and looked back I was surprised to find, only a small bank of new spring growth
Further along, a healthy looking colony of [what will become] cattails in what is left of a Spring rain pond With a few Lady Ferns at their edge
What better way to end this walk, than spotting a Spotless Ladybug Cycloneda in a warm spot in some grass
