walking vacation, day six: the hood

Today was another work day for Bonnie and her family at the farm. I have super allergies to horses, hay and work, so I stayed back at my sister's house. We did some random errand, and bought her a new computer.

We've been having stray storms. Violent. They come out of nowhere and are gone just as quick. We've been hoping to have burgers on the grill so always make the plan B meal. Today's plan B was spaghetti. But Bonnie needs gluten free pasta. I offered to take the long way to Krogers.

I decided to walk to the end of her street, then work my way up to Westport Road, and back. Basically a square.

My first indication that I was in the south was the magnolias blooming in people's yards.

Then I saw what I thought was a bird house. But it was on a corner. That would be odd. It turned out to be a little free library. Someone stuffed some Watchtowers in there. If it wasn't the beginning of the walk, I might have looked more seriously.

You can imagine my surprise when I found another one a few blocks away. Clearly this neighborhood likes to read.

I've always wanted a peace pole in my garden. I love how this one is home made. Much more organic than the official ones.

Even though I had mapped the route before I left I was not calling my sister in distress today. SO to check where I was, I opened the Geocaching app on my phone. I was a half block away from a cache. I went for it. It so pretty clear where it was. And I still couldn't find it. I tried 2 more before I gave up. I was 0/3 today.

It took about 10 minutes to cross Westport Road to get to Kroger's. It was like an ice box in there. After my walk, it felt fantastic.

I had wanted to go see the pedestrian bridge lite up tonight, but nobody wanted to go along. (Photo from louisville.edu) And if I took the car and the tween, I would have had to take "Anabelle" back to the farm. I have never gone to the farm without getting lost. This would have been so much better than working.