Walking around Town: Fall in the City

Last week, me & my phone took a walk in a beautiful neighborhood.  The streets were lined with stunning trees of all colors complementing the elegant homes.   

Back to the Appalachian Trail!

It's been slightly over a year since I've hiked on the Appalachian Trail and am really glad to be back on it.  This was a section I've done before in Maryland.  Next up - want to get back to section hiking - have about 30 miles in Northern Virginia before I get to Shenandoah National Park.  In the roller coaster section with tough ups and downs and I'm not in shape but I guess that's one way to get into shape.  

Black & White & Shades of Gray: Lotus

I see things (not literally) in black and white, right and wrong, good and evil.  Are there shades of gray? I am doubtful.  It's hard for me to see often.  So here I go, pushing myself into the literal, the pragmatic, wanting to work on my black & white photography plus a photo challenge for gray, and so here goes.   

Lotus Dream

Walking Around Town: Stone Cold Crazy (& Vote!)

On my walk nearly four months ago, I was feeling - as I am today - stone cold crazy.  I can be very literal.   Thus my theme for this walk - stone.  (I also was probably listening to Queen, some of my themes relate to songs/music.)  This election is stressing the heck out of me.  So, am praying that enough sane people obey the message on the stone pups' masks and vote.  

 

A Tale of Two Cemeteries

Last November/December, scouted and then co-led a photo walk through two cemeteries in Georgetown.

From a 2016 NY Times article:  "On one side is Oak Hill, a lush slope of well-tended graves of congressmen, publishers and cabinet members who were, with few exceptions, white. On the other side is the Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemetery. There, broken gravestones lie in large piles and dogs and their owners have taken the place of mourners for the slaves, freedmen and mostly black citizens buried below."  

Our first visit was to the neglected Mount Zion and then onto the beautiful grounds of Oak Hill.  But found beauty in both.

Hard to believe that this was nearly a year ago.  

Overcliff ~ Undercliff

Last month during my stay in NY, my first hike at the Mohonk Preserve.  This was the Overcliff - Undercliff loop.  Nice wide carriage road trails, nice views, boulders, rock climbers.  And the earliest hint of fall even in mid-September. 

 

Summer, meet Fall

 My summer flowers are happy as the trees gaining their autumn red leaves have their back.