Walk, Don't Run

Taking walks didn’t use to be considered an extracurricular activity in my daily life but now that I live in the End of the Rainbow Valley I have a couple of guys who love to take walks with me. Both Natureman and Romeo have always had walks in their daily regimens.

Romeo, our ever companiable 'perro' always  leads the way as he needs to be out in front a couple hundred yards to make him the alpha male. 

 Romeo heads the pack until a squirre/rabbitl crosses his path and then he's off and running.

Even though our driveway is about a mile long we often cut off the road and journey up one of the logging roads. This past weekend we went up to our neighbor's corn field.  He has already hayed and there are still corn stalks awaiting to become silage. The rustling of the stalks is a very distinctive sound and the wind was working a number on them... No telling what's hiding amidst them. Romeo will disappear into them and then all of a sudden reappear out of nowhere. Various animals have been helping themselves to left over cobs and partially eaten cobs are strewn along our path.

If you look northward  you can spy a house at the very tip of the hill on the left hand side. I still don't know how the owners get up there but surely there must be a road. LOL.

On many a walk we have seen various types of critters. The birds are plentiful as they swoop down/ fly overhead  ... hawks, eagles, vultures, owls, geese,  cranes and  ducks besides all the other bird species. We have shared the road with pheasants,  a flock of adult and adolescent turkeys. They really gave Romeo a nice run. And at this time of the year flocks of black birds roost in the trees. Their noise is deafening...

Here's proof of the deer that take refuge in the woods...  besides hiding/ running from hunters. They know it's bow hunting season. I used to say Run, Bambi, Run... but now I realize that they can stay really still laying in the tall grasses for hours. Sometimes Romeo doesn't even bother with them.

Well it was a refreshing weekend walk and probably one of the last really nice light jacket days since 

                              Father Winter is blowing into the End of the Rainbow Valley...