keeping it local

In today's Morning Call there was an article about improving the D&L in the Lehigh Valley. If you haven't seen it, click here. Their description of the unfinished part is a little exaggerated. There's only a short passage that you're walking on roads or on narrow trails. I think the rustic trail in Catty is quite nice.

Pam's daughter is home from college and do an internship and studying/taking graduate school exams. Pam had to monitor the house today because she was not allow to be disturbed by anything while taking this test. Everyone knows that's when the door bell or phone rings and the dogs want to go out. So we didn't do the D&L, we kept local and walked at Wildlands Conservancy in Emmaus.

The conservancy was quite busy today. Lots of moms, grandparents, and children. One of the other hikers told us that the Parkway was crazy busy. It's C19. Nobody wants to travel far and they think "outside" is safer. Sadly, few were wearing masks.

We took the Backyard Trail, always turning left until we found these stairs. We thought about going down, but they seemed to lead to a house. When we returned and looked at the map there was a parking lot down there.

This time we turned right and went past some teepees the camp kids built. There was a lot of storm damage. The frog pond had no frogs, and it was really low on water

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Like many other places there was evidence of gypsy moth activity. (Does gypsy get capitalized?) But this one was cool with the sun streaming thru it. We'll pretend that they aren't ruining the forest.

Some trails were one way because of storm damage, and maybe because of overcrowding, There's no way to tell.

Going to the Wildlands I saw this house. I made sure to stop and take the picture. This is America today in one house. One street. One borough. I wonder which one went up first. The one on the King side also have BLM signs in their window. Their sign says "Hate can­not dri­ve out hate; only love can do that."

**UPDATE 9/1:  These aren’t gypsy moths or tent caterpillars, both of which can kill trees. These are fall webworms, whose nest are ugly but almost never a real problem.

Miles/Steps:    About 2. Also walked around the perimeter of Target with Pat. We walk everyday. 

Weather:         77, sunny, breeze 

PPE Found:      1 mask 
Extra:              OMG I have a comment on a post. First time since July 21, 2018. And people have started reading my blog again. I'm starting to get hits. One day it was 12. Usually it's 2 or 3 or 5 but after months of 0 I'll take it.