Saturday, May 31, 2014

Perfection?

Total walking miles Monday through Friday (5/26 - 5/30): 77.6
Total training miles today (5/31): about 16.1

The perfect morning for walking. What is it?
     1) I am healthy and fit, and I have friends to share the trail with me
     2) The weather is good. No, the weather is perfect: not too hot or cold. And definitely not raining.
     3) There are no bugs trying to eat us!
     4) We have a great place to walk and a beautiful world to admire.

We walked our "traditional" walk this morning, making a loop around the periphery of the Palmer Coking Coal property. We walked by Frog Lake. It was very pretty in the morning light. There were Yellow Flags growing and blooming in the lake.

Frog Lake with Yellow Flag blooming.
We walked by Lake Sawyer.
Bridget always has to swim after a stick thrown in the water.
Bud loved cooling off too.
Patti throws a stick for Bridget. Bud cools off and gets a drink.
 We walked through the woods. The ferns were beautiful (perfect) in the morning light.
Bob walking the trail with sword ferns on every side.
Mount Rainier was splendid (perfect) with the morning sun making the snow gleam.

Some say, however, that the greatest perfection is imperfection.
Because, if it was perfect, then there would be no room for something better.

Perhaps today really wasn't perfect after all.
We both miss having Debbie with us this weekend.
Perhaps next weekend will be more perfect?

2 comments:

Valorie said...

I want Debbie to be back hiking with you two!

Bob said...

Yes, she is camping this weekend. Hopefully (fingers crossed) she will be walking again next weekend, unless she has to work.