Harry and I have been hiking a lot lately.
We not only want to get our tired and flabby bodies in shape,
but we are preparing for a trip!
We are booked on a "Villages of Italy" tour
with Rick Steves' "Europe Through The Back Door" tours.
The brochure states that their tours "are physically active!"
We've been walking from our house to the top of the Castleford butte. It's about a four-mile hike. After walking the same trail so many times, you'd think that we would tire of the scenery. But that is hardly the case. The views are interesting-- from agricultural sights to desert sights, from domestic animals to wild animals, from...
...the things of God
... to the things of man.
The sky is ever-changing. We've seen the corn seed sprout, and now we watch the ears of corn come on. We've seen the grasshoppers, the ants, the jack rabbits, the stink bugs crossing our path. We even saw a snake! As fair time approaches, we are sharing the path with 4H kids walking their sheep to get them ready to show at the fair.
What would seem ordinary
is actually quite extraordinary.
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