It's the perfect time of year for a hike: warm and sunny, but cool and breezy. Dogs and tourists and visitors grazed the well-trodden path. The moss was ripe. The trees were blooming. The ferns were so thick they looked like lush green shag carpet.
Harley led the way with zeal. Sniffing every tree. Peeing on every leaf. Smiling the way that happy puppies smile.
The three of us (humans, that is), laughed, looked, enjoyed.
It was just a peaceful sweet day.
We hiked for about an hour until we came to an opening and a mini-beach on Buntzen Lake where we could enjoy a picnic lunch: cheese, crackers, sandwiches, juice, cherries! It was a feast!
We laughed a little more.
told really bad jokes.
soaked up the sun.
Tapped our full bellies gingerly, and then hiked out.
it was a short but brisk hike, and the perfect first taste of nature this Spring.
It left us all satiated with nature's beauty yet craving more more more!
So this is, no doubt, the first of many hiking posts ...
after all, mother nature is calling and I can't help but to answer.
