I took a walk today

by Rachel Bachmann


Here's what I saw:

I had high ambitions of taking pictures at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens.  Just as I walked up, a grounds manager was shoveling snow and informed me that Cheekwood was closed for public safety reasons.  He was not the least amused when I begged him to let me snap "just one" photo (the above image).  After I took this, he promptly nodded me to leave and then immediately shut the gate.  Cold weather has a way of making us all less accommodating to the wishes of others, I suppose.

The beautiful entrance gate to Cheekwood

Percy Warner golf course.  There's something so fun about making the first footprints on an undisturbed blanket of snow.  

(obligatory shoes-in-the-snow picture)

I've spent many many hours in Percy Warner Park, but today was the first time I visited it in the snow.

A jogger passed me just after I took this.  These stairs are difficult enough to jog up without the snow;  I can only imagine how challenging they are with multiple layers of ice and snow!

Cold temperatures don't keep her from flying strong!

Blue sky peeped through just as I was leaving the park. Although it was a beautiful snowfall, I won't be sad to see Spring soon replace it!