Day 80: Made for walking

These boots may well have been, but have since been replaced by one of my first purchases in the Capital Region boots in a style called Albany - how appropriate.

We did in fact do a fair amount of walking today. At Five Rivers nature reserve (identifying the birds of the Northeast), around the garden with a rake (an Autumn/Fall job better late than never) and around the local streets with Exile #3 on her tricycle. Exile #3 also managed her 2nd normal swimming lesson in four weeks (two having been disrupted by weather and illness).

The snow has almost entirely gone - even the 'mountain' is only a few inches tall and a couple of feet wide now -it has left the ground extremely soggy, but we shouldn't complain about that. There was certainly a air of Spring Fever as people ventured outside in the sunshine to survey the debris of winter - both fallen twigs and branches from high winds and ice-storms and, in our case at least, the pre-winter debris revealed again having been hidden for so long. There is snow featuring in the weather forecast again (although only in theoretical terms at the moment) so we may not be quite out of the woods, but it is certainly nice to be able to get out and see the sky.