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.