Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Spring Walk On The Trail

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet

Ahhh -
first sunny walk of the refreshing Spring season.

The trail outside my parents house became quite the controversy when the city wanted to turn the old railroad track route into a trail. A week before it opened we 'snuck' on the trail only to be yelled at by a bitter rich old lady who meanly reminded us that it was not open for another week. Paranoid lake people put up chain link fences with serious locks. Only bad could come from this trail they thought.

Quite the contrary.

It has turned out to be one of our favorite things about Grandma's house.

Each house that my parents have owned included a walk that becomes one of our favorite memories.

32nd house - the barcade walk
Sammamish Woods House - the big circle
Longmont - down to the mailboxes & Lagerman lake
Lake House - the trail

Life's good times and bad times are always conversed and sometimes solved on walk.



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