Good morning! Graced with yet another beautiful day in the Park! Lately I've been feeling a little blah about the Park and I wasn't sure why. Even on the prettiest of days, I was just ho-hum. Well today I changed up my routine just to see if that was the problem. I think I was feeling as though my almost meditative walks had been turned into social hour. There were just so many people that wanted to stop and chat, say hi to Sofie & Bear/feed them treats, that it just got to be that I was avoiding everybody all the time. I sound like such a jerk, but really, I don't want to chitter-chatter in the morning. I also noticed that my route was including more and more trash from night-time and early-morning hobo benders. Sorry homeless people - I sympathize with the fact that almost all of you suffer from mental illness and/or addiction (that is very sad & not your fault), but I can't be comin' across your trash, cigarette butts, and broken bottles every day!
This morning I went a totally different direction and it was glorious. New lawns to investigate, less people, and less dogs. Our new route had more open lawn for the dogs to run on, which I think they like. There was also less trash, which I think is a function of the fact that there are less "nooks" for people to hunker down. Variety is the spice of life!!
I like that sled dog statue above. If you can't read the text it spells:
"Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of
The Sled Dogs
That relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice
across the treacherous waters through arctic blizzards from
Nenana to the relief of striken Nome in the
winter of 1925.
Endurance Fidelity Intelligence"
What would we do without dogs? ;-)
J
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