I'm baack!

Sigh. I am back. I didn't mean to be gone so long. I have been wondering if I should change this blog to something different. I have been reading that you need to write about stuff you enjoy. And I do enjoy walking. And I want to encourage more people to walk. But here in Flagstaff we got this big snowstorm and the sidewalks got all gunked up so it's really not too safe to walk many places.
In a lot of places you need to be quite agile to climb over the snow piles to get to the clean sidewalks and then climb over the snow piles again to cross the street. I am not kidding. I should have taken photos. A lot of people end up walking in the street, which is just not safe. My friend and hero, Jack Welch, wrote this wonderful article for the Arizona Daily Sun with the quote: "Sidewalks are a trail system. And every front door along their route is a trailhead." (by the way, Jack Welch was awarded Flagstaff Male Citizen of the Year- hurray! He deserves it!)
But, as his article discusses, you can't go far on a sidewalk without keeping it free of snow.
I have been walking. We forged a trail through the snow to my son's school. It was actually getting quite easy walking, the snow has been melting. I also found other blazed trails through the snow I could walk on. And we have been able to go to lower elevations where there hasn't been any snow. That's been nice.
This week we are expecting more snow. Actually... Today is Wednesday. My son had Monday off because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It snowed eight inches that night. Snow day on Tuesday. Most of the snow seemed to melt on Tuesday- but remember we still have several inches on the ground from the previous storms. Last night we got about eight more inches of snow. Another snow day today. The sun is out again so I suspect the roads will be cleared of snow again. But then the BIG storm will hit- rain or snow? how much? we don't know yet. It might go east of us. Who knows. I will get photos of our road conditions to you, just to show you what our walkers are up against.
Until I think of changes, and I have a couple of ideas, I will just keep at it.
take care.
The photograph is of an ocotillo in a Phoenix sunset.