Tis the Season...
...to be frighteningly busy.

Sometimes you just have to relax, have the snack of your choice, and flip on whatever mindless drivol that best distracts you. Sometimes you need a mental vacation. (after this week I know I need one) I enjoy the tube now and then like anyone else, but when I want to get away I put on my sneakers and go for a walk. A few weeks ago I had the chance to take my 4 mile walk early in the morning. The light glistened in the foggy mist and the dripping dew reflected spectacular brilliance from the myriad of webs strewn by nocturnal aracnids. A couple of weekends ago when I walked it was late afternoon. If you're interested in mild mental exercise without the physical exersion then you can join me for a virtual walk. We start about half way across the bottom of a wide rectangle and head west (left), turning right until we get back home again...

The proverbial starting gate...

Turn left at the mailbox and head west. At the edge of our property there's a pear tree.

Looking back at the house as I head out for my walk.

And when I turn around toward the west...

"Our" pond (to my left)

The neighbor who lives by the pond.

Looking back toward home (.1 mi)

Lord help us if we ever need this (at the neighbor's house)

The old Brown estate

West from the old Brown place (.3 mi)

Clear of the trees (.4 mi)

Looking SW back toward the big hill behind our house

Facing South

Telephoto of our hill (.5 mi)

The old man who fixes our HVAC lives up there on the right.

Well...

Turned right, looking North up Dixie

Looking back on our road (~.6 mi)

Looking back down the hill along Dixie (.8 mi)

Facing our hill (same point)

Facing a cabin we can see from our house (same point)

Redneck summer palace (1 mi) 

 
(1 mi)

The view from the second turn (NW corner lot) (1.1 mi)

Opposite corner (SE corner)

Continuing East - this road runs parallel to "our" road.

The Forrest - lots of deer call this home

Looking back down the hill toward the corner with the collapsed barn (~1.3 mi)

The cabin we can see from home, but this time from its own front yard. (~1.4 mi)

Home Sweet Home
From the perspective of the Cabin

1.5 mi

Daisies (1.6mi)

Purple Martin Habitat

Ornothogist's Heaven?

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's persimmons - just pick them up and enjoy them as they are.
(1.8 mi)

About half way around my 4 mile rectangle.

A watering hole

This is our famous "fish tree" from the far side (the road running parallel to our road)

~2.1 mi

~2.4 mi

I think this is where the Aliens landed.

I turn right at the bottom of the hill.

Rural Graffiti - in the third corner (~2.7 mi)

Rural Politics

~2.9

South, toward the school house (where I turn right to get home). ~3 mi

One of the most common sights in Indiana. ~3.1 mi

No Zoning, but plenty of flowers...

Split Rail

The old school house 3.2 mi, at the last corner.

Relief from the school house.

Where I turn left every morning on the way to work.
Looking back at the last corner, only 3/4 mile from home now.

Happy Mail

Tiled Field 3.7 mi

Heading toward home. 3.5 mi

Penny for your thoughts?

Yard Art 3.8 mi

More yard art.

Coming soon: a neighborhood near you. 3.9 mi

Home Sweet Home
(as viewed from the end of that road under construction above)