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sparkleflit 76F
4954 posts
1/31/2022 9:27 pm
SOME REALLY BORING PHOTOS OF TODAY'S WALK







sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
1/31/2022 9:37 pm

The top one is a bike ramp...the last 3 are of a huge rock....About 12 feet tall....Just sitting there looking like a big Troll.....


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
1/31/2022 10:07 pm

Apparently there is a dog-walking club, because 8 large dogs came running up to me on the path, surrounded me and walked along with me.....When I emerged from the forest and headed for the field , they stopped.....When I looked back, half a dozen older women came out of the woods and headed towards the parking lot with the dogs milling around them.

Some of them were women who had asked me to join their "walking group".....I had declined and they asked me why and I told them..."Because you would expect me to talk" and they said "Yes we would.".......I knew, because I have been part of hiking groups before and have passed by others on my hikes and they are always talking.....Chatter chatter gab gab........

I can chat with the best of them over a cuppa or sitting around, but when I'm walking in Nature, I want to be tuned in to my environment.....A dog scares everything away, let alone a gaggle of chattering Humans.......Alone, I see and hear....The Ravens and Eagles are in their mating phase and are making the most wondrously beautiful sounds.....Those songs always tell me that Mother Earth is waking up and nurturing the seeds in her belly...


Maudie1 74F
8151 posts
2/1/2022 1:18 am

Not boring at all. A beautiful blue sky and lovely trees. There is nothing like a nice peaceful walk, especially when you want to be alone with your thoughts.


TwilightSpirit 56F
1243 posts
2/1/2022 4:24 am

I love exactly that kind of boredom, and bore myself often like that. Thank you for sharing.


p1947q 77M

2/1/2022 6:28 am

There is absolutely nothing boring about a walk in nature and the pictures you have. I have several thousand pictures from my travels that I have on my computer and I use them as backgrounds on my screen with the option set to change them every few minutes. So I never know which one is going to be displayed and some of them are pretty, some are terrible but even the terrible ones bring back memories so they are worth seeing again and again ........

Life is not about weathering the storm - it is about learning to dance in the rain


Robyn363 83F
3474 posts
2/1/2022 6:43 am

I prefer to walk alone and keep my dogs with me. I dont like chatter any more.
The photos of the woods are beautiful.


Rocketship 80F
18567 posts
2/1/2022 6:56 am

I very much like your second photo, and can imagine myself enjoying that walk.... by myself.


Abelle2 83F
31227 posts
2/1/2022 7:09 am

I'm glad you took these photos, not boring at all.

We don't walk but drive the countryside and love seeing things like this.


Archer62 83F
7086 posts
2/1/2022 7:09 am

THAT PATH SURE LOOKS INVITING. WHERE DOES IT GO?


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 10:50 am

    Quoting Archer62:
    THAT PATH SURE LOOKS INVITING. WHERE DOES IT GO?
Through the woods to Grandma's house...


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 10:52 am

    Quoting Maudie1:
    Not boring at all. A beautiful blue sky and lovely trees. There is nothing like a nice peaceful walk, especially when you want to be alone with your thoughts.
Thanks for your comment Maudie...That is a lovely blue....


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 10:53 am

    Quoting TwilightSpirit:
    I love exactly that kind of boredom, and bore myself often like that. Thank you for sharing.
I'm glad you understand...


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 10:55 am

    Quoting Robyn363:
    I prefer to walk alone and keep my dogs with me. I dont like chatter any more.
    The photos of the woods are beautiful.
Thank you Robyn....I hope you share a photo of your dog companions.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 11:04 am

    Quoting p1947q:
    There is absolutely nothing boring about a walk in nature and the pictures you have. I have several thousand pictures from my travels that I have on my computer and I use them as backgrounds on my screen with the option set to change them every few minutes. So I never know which one is going to be displayed and some of them are pretty, some are terrible but even the terrible ones bring back memories so they are worth seeing again and again ........
i agree, there is absolutely nothing boring about a walk in nature....However, I have been posting photos of my walks through the same area for years.....I enjoyed your comment....My photos remind me of the benefits of Shinrin-Yoku,


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 11:07 am

    Quoting Rocketship:
    I very much like your second photo, and can imagine myself enjoying that walk.... by myself.
Thanks Rocketship.....It's taken just before the path heads out of the forest onto an open, fenced horse-training enclosure....


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 11:09 am

    Quoting Abelle2:
    I'm glad you took these photos, not boring at all.

    We don't walk but drive the countryside and love seeing things like this.
I'm sorry you can't get out and walk...Thanks for commenting..


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 11:21 am

    Quoting Archer62:
    THAT PATH SURE LOOKS INVITING. WHERE DOES IT GO?
It's part of a large web of trails that wind through hundreds of acres of forest and includes creeks, a lake, an old farmstead , horse training area, a community recreation centre that has a large hall, meeting rooms, stage, full professional kitchen ...Lots of activities,. There is a skate-board park, children's playground, tennis courts, basketball court, Daycare -Children's Centre.....Mountain-biking trails .....The whole trail system is maintained by volunteers....


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 11:24 am

    Quoting  :

Yeah....Walking alone runs some machinery in me that unwinds the knots and clears the way to understanding and peace....


Abelle2 83F
31227 posts
2/1/2022 2:46 pm

I'm glad you took these photos, not boring at all.

We don't walk but drive the countryside and love seeing things like this.


MrsJoe 76F
17384 posts
2/1/2022 6:25 pm

Well, I was going to tell you that it wasn't boring at all, and I particularly enjoyed that second picture.......... BUT, I see others have already said the same thing. I guess I am just joining in the chattering that you try to avoid. LOL.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 10:03 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    Well, I was going to tell you that it wasn't boring at all, and I particularly enjoyed that second picture.......... BUT, I see others have already said the same thing. I guess I am just joining in the chattering that you try to avoid. LOL.
I only avoid chattering when I'm walking in nature......To be perfectly honest, I'm not very good at it and often feel awkward in situations where chatter is expected.....I know people who are bottomless wells of chatter and they say..oh that Lulu, she's of in a world of her own and laugh at me for using "big words" or asking for a definition of terms....They just rattle on and I step back......I dread intermissions and stand-up parties......


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
2/1/2022 10:30 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    Well, I was going to tell you that it wasn't boring at all, and I particularly enjoyed that second picture.......... BUT, I see others have already said the same thing. I guess I am just joining in the chattering that you try to avoid. LOL.
Until I started school at 7, in Norway, many people thought I was mute..I remember a lady saying to my mother how sad it was that the child is mute....as I hid behind my mother from the adults asking me stupid questions.....I had a stammer and a speech impediment.....I went to a speech therapist and was finally able to get through a sentence and could finally say my Rs....and then we moved to Canada and I had to learn English without any help and was mercilessly teased once again for my speaking....I annunciate my words more carefully than most, and people sometimes ask me what kind of accent I have....When he first met me, a friend who is a speech therapist said, "you've had speech therapy, haven't you?. She recognized that careful annunciation .

I have spoken in front of audiences though, read my own work and done Improv on stage...Speaking in public at large meetings......But chatting?...not so much..