Spectacular Morning Sky Heralds A Good Day (Hiking Overland from Eggleston Rd)

6:45

Starting Our Hike

Hiking Through The Verticals

Hiking Out To Bridge

Same Bridge, November, 2011

Up at 6:15, to a pink glow over Bemus, which slowly  turned into a spectacular pink, then orange sunrise, a result of a clear sky.  It's now 7:05, the sun has yet to rise, the sky has clouded up some, as I wait for it to peek over the horizon, just to to the left of Tom's Point.  It's cold out, 21º but the high will get into the upper 30's later in the day, with rain predicted.  The sun is just now fighting its way through the clouds, at 7:09, and the first fisherman is dragging his sled behind him off of Victoria.

Yesterday began badly with yoga cancelled, the yoga wimp had a bad tummy, again.  But we made up for it by snow shoeing a new section of the Westside Overland Trail.  We were able to park our car on Eggleston Hill Road, a few miles north of Panama, which bisects Wall and Stebbins Roads, about eight miles from our house.  We entered the trail at this point and walked south towards Panama, through leafless woods, and discovered, on our way back, that our first half was mostly downhill.  The way back, thus, was more taxing.  We walked as far as a bridge, spanning a babbling brook, forgive the cliche.  This was the same bridge we had hiked to from Panama, the fall of 2011, so we have now walked almost the entire trail.  This particular walk was not very picturesque, as it was new forests for the most part, with a intriguing, inviting, pine forest just off to the east, the path never quite leading through it.  We snow shoed out about 35 minutes, and it took us 40 minutes to return, after doing some bushwhacking, to work up a sweat.

We were home by 1:00, for a lunch of lentil soup and sandwiches.  Mid afternoon, I went in to Lakewood, stopped at Wegman's to pick up some staples, getting home around 4:30.  We did not do much the rest of the afternoon, a wasted day unless you consider leisure a positive, which I do!  The sun came out late afternoon, bringing out the fishermen as you can see.

Fishing In Front of Fox's Home

Towards Tom's Point

We had leftover pork and chicken for dinner, both still quite good, and could not find much to watch on TV which interested us.  And we cannot get our Apple TV to work, so we went back to Netflix and watched a couple more episodes of a trashy series called Revenge, which I have to admit I am beginning to get hooked on, like an afternoon soap.  There's no figuring taste.

By the way, there was an amazing full moon last night, straight across from our house, hanging out over Bemus's Lake Side Drive.  I could not get a very good picture of it, alas. It was shocking because we rarely see a full moon this time of year and it's rarely straight east from our home.

Straight Across the Lake From Our Porch