Going for a walk – Plum Creek Bike and Nature Trail

The weather hasn’t been too bad lately and because it seems like I’m sitting more and more behind the desk at work, I thought I’d better get up and go for some walks during my lunch hour. I mean I literally ate a whole bag of Halloween candy Sunday night by myself, so a walk (more than once!) should be included in my day. And with having the walking path right behind the building where I work there should be no more excuses. So that was my plan as I left home this morning with my tennis shoes tied and off to work I go. Now I have to wear different shoes during the day, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t change back into these tennis shoes during the lunch hour. And guess what? It was a really good plan. Not only did I get to see tons of birds, but also I swear there was a squirrel by every tree gathering the black walnuts and running off with their treasures. At our farm I don’t think I’ve ever seen a squirrel in the 30+ years. Kinda weird isn’t it? But with crazy dogs and cats running around all the time, it doesn’t leave much room for squirrels to survive. OK, back to my walking excursion. The trail that I went on was the Plum Creek Bike and Nature Trail and as I was walking on it I thought how lucky this town is to have such a nice path to enjoy. Maybe it was the sun shining with a cool wind hitting my face or the leaves crunching under my shoes, but I was really enjoying this. I had my phone along to keep track of the time and of course it has a camera on it, so I snapped a couple of pictures along the way. Are you surprised? I didn’t walk the whole 5 mile loop today, but maybe I’ll walk it after work sometime. I spend too much time checking out what’s in the creek and counting the squirrels as I go by to really focus on getting a lot of walking done. Oh yea, maybe also taking pictures 🙂

Speaking of pictures, here are the ones that I took today. The first one is part of the path that I was walking on. I kind of like how it turned out because to me it looks like something that you glue up on the wall behind your couch or something doesn’t it?   The rest of the path that I walked on went by an old school house, some cows just hanging out, and a vineyard.

The old school house stands pretty proud against the fall sky

I think these cows have it made with a small creek running through their pasture

There is a winery along the way on the path and grapes as far as you can see all lined up in the fields

I ended up at the pond and then turned around to head back to work. I saw this little caterpillar and couldn’t help but notice how much brown he was wearing. The old wives tale is that the more brown –  the harder the winter. Looking at this little guy, I’d say we’re in for a whopper of a winter!