On the Very Brown Trail

Some of you have noticed that I have been doing comment moderation for a couple of days because I was being spammed rather furiously. One morning I woke up to 84 spams. I dealt with the the spams and also reported Jessie, but there were soon a 50 more.

I hate moderating and have now returned to normal because, let's face it, the blogger spam trap captures almost all of the spam. If it misses a few, I can easily send them into the great beyond in another simple step. It's just that the hundreds from Jessie caused me to turn up the security temporarily and probably needlessly.

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Chronologically, this post came before croci and snow storms, but those posts seemed that they should take precedence, so I take you back to the beginning of the week.

The options for our daily hobble have been greatly reduced for the past few months because the trail isn't cleared during winter and walking becomes too difficult, or at least it does for a pair of seniors. First there comes snow, and then melting and refreezing and resulting ice, and it goes on and on.

We become reduced to three main options: the bridge (trail), our neighbourhood, and downtown. Gone are Riverside Park, and the Riverwalk Trail, and even our local part for some of the time

There are two or three options for the Riverwalk Trail. On Monday, we drove to the arena and walked from there.

We chose to get back onto the trail because it was mighty windy — AGAIN! — and the trail is usually a bit sheltered. But you can see from the billowing of Sue's cape that we weren't able to escape the stiff breeze nearly as much as we would have liked.

The river beyond Sue is swollen but not as much as in some years. Although I recently have been taking whitewater photos, the volume has generally been a little less this year, despite us having endured a snowy winter.

The world is not terribly attractive in this brown phase when the snow is gone (although it did snow on the next day) but when the greening has not begun. Nevertheless, we and a very few other hardy souls made the most of it.

Perhaps, we will soon try Riverside Park as well. There is still a bit of flooding in there, but I expect that a good chunk of the park path is walkable or soon will be.