Nature Walks

So as those of you with dogs know, life is sometimes all about the routine.  At some point in every single day (unless we're away), Sadie and I walk down the same street.  

If it's morning & I'm rushing to get to work, we walk to our first landmark, the first fire hydrant (making our round trip about 0.4 miles).  If I have a little more time, we walk down to the second landmark, fire hydrant #2 (about 0.6 of a mile round trip).  And if we have enough time, we walk all the way to the end of the road, which makes our round trip 1.1 miles.

I don't usually have time for the full walk in the mornings, or on dark winter evenings, but on weekends and summer evenings, we always go the full distance.  I love this time, this 20-30 minutes of shambling down the road and taking in the day.  Sometimes the reservoir along the road looks like this:

And sometimes it looks like this:

Yesterday, it started to melt a bit, so it looked more like this around the edges:

On the return trip yesterday, we wandered off the road and down a narrow path by a stream.  I took some video of the burbling stream and the slight springy feeling to the scene.

Today, that same stream looked like this:

Waah, waah.  Whatever - I know spring is coming someday!