Winter walk

Yesterday Starter Husband and I took a walk at Skunk Hollow Park which is in Radnor Township. We started at the mansion at the Willows and followed the white blaze trail. Several other folks era also walking, often with their dogs. We met a bouncing puppy which was clearly happy to be outside in the lightly falling snow. The path led us down into s valleys with a stream. We could hear the distance pops of guns being fire and one woman told us that the Aronimink club offers shooting practice on their tennis courts. We walked along the stream and listened to the water rush over the stones. The snow fell in light flakes. We walked for maybe an hour until we finished the loop and went back to the car. 

We plan to take many more walks together this year, inspire in part by our hikes in Grindelwald last summer. Before we had our first child, we hiked through Glacier National Park. Those days and hikes are some of my best memories with SH because we were all alone in the mountains and only had ourselves to depend on. We worried about bears and so wore bear bells in our packs. We walked all day and ate our lunch in mountain valleys overlooking tranquil lakes or gazing across to tall peaks covered with snow. 

  
 

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Currently I am an English teacher at an independent school outside of Philadelphia. To arrive at this way point, I spent many years in graduate school researching, reading, learning, and studying and finally earned a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University. I specialized in medieval orality and literacy. My private interests include baking, knitting, spinning, and gardening.
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