No morning walk but....

It rained and was windy all night and this morning was more of the same.  I thought about walking.  I don't mind walking in the rain, I don't mind walking in the wind, but with the two together I wasn't so sure.  There was a tornado watch too so with a little help from Ken I decided to skip my morning walk.

Without walking first this morning, it just didn't seem right and I couldn't get started with the work I had to do, though I did start out doing my exercise DVD and got that out of the way.  Then I read for a while. I spotted my knitting sitting on the chair and when I should have been doing other things I sat down and knitted and listened to the start of another audio book. 

Just before noon I looked outside and though it was still windy the rain had stopped.  I spotted a little blue in the sky

 and before I knew it I was outside walking on my way to the lake. :-)  It felt good to be outside.  There were a few other people walking and running around the lake too.  Two of them were regular morning walkers and like me once the rain stopped they just had to go for a walk!!  One of them said to me, "I see you couldn't stand not to walk either."
There were a few trees down along the paths from all the wind.
I stopped to take this picture of the Cardinal.  It's not a very good picture because I had to zoom in, but was lucky to get even this because I can never get one to stay still long enough for a picture.

 A little farther along I came across this little birds nest.  

It's such a cute little thing.

I was walking along and up ahead a ways there were lots of geese on both sides of the path and a young woman would start to run past and then turn back and then try again.  When I got up to her she laughed and I laughed and asked if she were afraid of the geese.  She said she was, so I offered to walk along with her past them.  She said yes so I escorted her through the geese.  Once we were passed them she thanked me for being her protector and took off running.  I turned around, went back through the geese again (this time they hissed at me) and went along the path towards home.  I couldn't help but smile, thinking about someone being afraid of geese. :-)

I had a good walk and went 6.2 miles!

Once I got back home I had lunch and then did just a little of that work I wanted to get done today.  I'll save the rest for tomorrow because now I feel like finishing that knitting project I'm working on.

Hope your Wednesday is a happy one.

A smile from me to you.
Happyone :-)

Faith can move mountains,

but don't be surprised

if God hands you a shovel.

~Author Unknown