Jo has a new set of questions for us to park on and answer for Wednesday Hodgepodge! Thank you, Jo!
1. Thursday is National Walk To A Park Day. I know these celebratory days are mostly made up, but some are fun to think about. Do you live close enough to a park to walk to one on Thursday? Will you? The most famous park in the world is Central Park located in NYC. Have you ever been to Central Park? What did you think? If you haven’t been is this a place you’d like to see?
The closest park to us is Douglas Falls Park and it is 3.3 miles away so it would take over an hour to walk to on roads that frankly aren’t safe to walk on. We will not walk to this park. We’ve been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which sits on the edges of Central Park but I do not remember walking in the park. I’m not interested in traveling to New York at this stage of my life.
2. Something you’ve done recently that turned out to be a ‘walk in the park’?
We were able to walk in parks recently while in Scotland and the ‘walk in the park’ part is that because Greg and I pushed ourselves to condition our bodies for stairs by climbing the stairs at the high school football stadium every day for a few weeks before we flew to Scotland we were able to walk and climb easier than normal for us. The photo at the top of this post is from one of the Castle parks we walked in and this was our bonus sighting… below!
A baby Coo!
3. Can you parallel park? Do you have to do this often where you live?
I can parallel park but I do not have to where we live and even though I can, I avoid it.
4. The colors of fall…red, brown, russet, golden bronze, golden yellow, purplish red, light tan, crimson, orange red, and scarlet. Are these colors you like to wear? Is this your season in terms of color? What about your home? Would we see these tones in your home decorating?
I do put out fall decor in all these colors for a few months in fall and wear some of those colors but they are not my go to colors.
5. What part of history do you find most interesting? Elaborate.
Because of our recent trip to Scotland I found the history of the Scottish Reformation most interesting. It made our whole trip so much more meaningful to watch for and follow in the steps of the Reformers and Covenantors like Knox, Wishart, the two Margarets and Jenny Geddes and others. To hear of their interactions with Kings and Queens in history and how they boldly stood up for Christ was inspiring. We saw evidences of their remarkable legacy in Museums, Libraries, Graveyards, Cathedrals, castles, and on the streets.
Knox: “As touching nature I am a worm on this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman…For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.”
6. Insert your own random thought here.
We had a great show again of the Northern lights on Monday night here in Colville. Here is one of many shots I took.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Enjoyed reading your answers and seeing your pictures. The picture of the Northern Lights is unreal! The Scottish Reformation sounds fascinating and I enjoyed reading what you wrote when you did your Scotland recaps. I can see how awe inspiring it would be to see the places of historical significance to the Reformation. Have a great day!
…what a light show you had to enjoy.
Those Northern Lights are beautiful! My granddaughter calls all cows coos now : ) It’s so sweet. Yes the stairs in Europe, often without handrails too!! I think history really comes alive when you see places where big things happened with your own two eyes. Reading about the Holocaust hits different now that I’ve visited an actual camp. Have a great day!
Yes, you did do a lot of walking in Scotland. I believe I went to that museum by Central Park too. I like the history that you find interesting. What a blessing to see those Northern Lights. They amaze me. I’ve never seen them.
I’d love walking down that path. Since my house is in the woods, I feel like I live in a park. Can go walking trails anytime I want to right out my door. 🙂
Very wise to get conditioned with all those steps before traveling to Scotland! Enjoyed reading your answers today, and I absolutely love your photo of the Northern lights – spectactular!! Have a great week!
I love big trees and that calf is so cute! I have seen the Northern lights while in Alaska. I would love to love to go back again. Glad you had a nice vacation!
Hello, The Northern Lights have been something this season, we enjoyed another show here in Northwest Wisconsin.
The Scottish Reformation sounds very interesting to me.
Amazing northern lights this year. They seem to be everywhere. Well done for getting fit for your holiday. It’s great that you didn’t have to miss out any of the sights because of those steep hills. B x
Your Scotland trip sounds amazing. It is trips such as this that open our eyes to experience a past we have only read about and imagined. Like the Knox quote. We couldn’t see the northern lights here as the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex dominates the night skies.
Lots of walking and lots of history were both part of your Scottish travels! The quote by John Knox is inspiring! How exciting that you were able to see the Northern Lights! We would have been able to view them here in Maryland, but all three of us were inside where we were volunteering at our English as a Second Language ministry and we missed the (very rare) show.
Smart move to prepare…we’ve done that with various things before. Beautiful shot of the lights. I haven’t been able to get any this time around.
Stair climbing is good exercise! My grandson playes two soccer games recently that had parking at the top of a hill and the fields were three stair stories lower. It was a good work out for us!