Violet awaits Rowan’s arrival
Rowan and Diane joined us here in Westhampton, MA for today’s adventure. I was concerned that we would need to cancel our outing… once again, we had had a week of rain – rendering the woods sogging and moist. And, most assuredly, full of ticks. But, the sun was shining brightly when I awoke and looked out the window. Hooray! Our walk was on!
When Rowan and Diane arrived here at Bridgvale Farm, they popped into our awaiting vehicle and we headed to the hills… the top of Burt Road in the center of town. I often park in the town lot and hike the 1/2 mile straight up to the top of Burt Road – a very steep climb on a paved road. This is great to do with my English Setter Lily who needs to burn off lots of energy. But today, with the pups, we drove up to the top and parked off to the side of the road.
Rough terrain
The lumber road begins there at the top – a clearly defined gravel road, at the start. But, after crossing a stream on foot, it starts getting washed out, steep, and very rocky. Definitely our roughest terrain to date. The two young explorers (Violet-8 months, Rowan-now 11 weeks) seemed up to the task as they trundled happily along ahead of us up the rocky slope. We continued for a good thirty minutes, but the paths kept forking and were becoming far less distinguishable. The humans made the decision to turn the expedition around and head back to the car before we succeeded in getting ourselves lost.
Since the canine contingent still had plenty of energy to go… we decided to end today’s adventure by heading up the lumber road that runs next to our house along a bubbling stream. It was flat and easygoing – and went on for about 1/4 mile before turning to brush. No more road or pathway… We headed back to the house where the humans enjoyed refreshments on the porch and the canines fell into collapse on the cool slate flooring. Diane and I plotted our plans for next week’s adventure. Stay tuned…
Cynthia…I enjoyed reading you entries. Your writing is lovely! Also, I like the layout of your blog..did you design it yourself? I use blogspot and it is so confining in its abilities. Putting our latest entries on is so frustrating and I have done webpages before…..
and..again…your writing is lovely!
Thank you, Helene. I’m so glad you’re enjoying my blog. Jay Stebbins, Margie’s finance, does my blog design. He does a marvelous job.