A walk is exercise. It is informational, historical, territorial, but sometimes everything converges and it's magical. These have been some lovely moments on our walks:
- A sloping wooded neighborhood street, where each resident had not only decorated their house and yard with lights, but had coordinated to hang strings of lights crisscrossing the street all the way up the hill.
- A giant pine tree hung with at least 25 handmade birdhouses, most made from re-purposed materials. The yard alive with birdsong as birds stood on their homes or sang from inside their crafty digs.
- Tree stumps carved into Roosters, stacked balls, waterfalls, benches, and bears, to name a few.
- A walkway lined with colorful bowling balls.
- A more permanent game of hopscotch made from stepping stones.
- A house covered in ceramic faces.
- A corrugated whale hung on a garage door.
- Many fairy houses and gnomes, in yards, on tree stumps, and sometimes even appearing along a bike path.
- A giant property strung up with over the top Christmas lights.
- Enormous inflatable Mushrooms lit up in the dark.
- Painted "eyes" staring up from the sidewalk.
- Rosie who sniffs and licks every statue of a dog.
