Wednesday Walk
Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by @tattoodjay, The idea is to get out for a short walk, and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start.
Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too. - Kenneth G. Eade
I absolutely agree with Kenneth G. Eade on this. Ideas had come to me while I was walking. Unfortunately, most of these ideas – like those you had when you were about to fall asleep, or when you were in the midst of doing something else, they were completely forgotten by the time I reached home.
There is something very pleasing when you see the familiar scenes before you on your walk – the trees, the flowers, the regular walkers and acquaintances you made on your walks, especially when the route is also very scenic. The trees and flowers feel like old friends, always there to greet you, and surprise you with their blooms and colours.
PCN printed on the road stands for Park Connector. There is a on-going project to connect the whole island with these Park Connectors so that one could literally walk, or cycle to anywhere on the island.
These housing estates are near, or beside the canal and walk path.
Here in the tropics, we get cloudy skies. I love watching the cloud formations. They fascinate me - since young.
Sometimes, I get to have a peek at the residences in the canal. There are a few of these Komodo dragons.
Sometimes, you see them on land.
Is that a Kingfisher, or a Heron? waiting for its meals.
Flowers of the week – Wikipedia lists this as the Duranta Erecta. There are quite a few beds of these, hedge height along the path.
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What a cool walk you got in, I do remember loving watching the clouds there as well always changing, and I love that quote, I to find walking is when I do my best thinking
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :)
Thank you@tattoodjay. It's my pleasure to join the Wednesday walk.:-)
Cheers have a great day
An excellent walk. The first picture drew me in and I wanted to step out on the route with you. Thanks for sharing experience, my friend. !tip
Hi Jon,
How are you coping with the lockdown? Are you still on lockdown?
What a thought. It would my pleasure to have you take a walk with me. But be prepared to have your brains picked. :-)
Thanks for the tip!
We're not locked down, per se. That is, I go to work 3 days and work from home the other 2 days, and we go out everyday to get groceries, takeout, coffee, whatever. We stroll around the small park across the street from our house most days.
Neither my wife nor I wear a mask unless the store requires it, which so far is the pet food store and the stores on the Navy base where I work. We purposely go the opposite direction to any arrows or footprints on the floor, and basically resist complying with rules. For Cinco de Mayo, we got takeout from a Mexican restaurant that included margaritas, and ate our meal seated in beach chairs in the parking lot rather than drive home with it.
The death rate from COVID-19 in the US is 45,632 as of today, and the weekly numbers are dropping. Contrast that with the 2017-2018 flu season (which my wife and I both caught) that had 80,000 deaths. We're of the mind that this is just an excuse to usher in totalitarianism. Our governor is really trying hard there.
Take care, Vincent. !tip
Hi Jon,
I guess your state of lockdown is very much like ours.
I understand some of the States in the US are lifting their lockdown. It would be interesting to see how that turns out.
Just a thought - If this is ushering in totalitarianism, then it has to be a world-wide conspiracy - from all the leaders of the world. That is a bit difficult to believe. But, what do I know right. I live happily in my little rut, in my little well.
You take care too.
Cheers!
P S Thanks for the tip.
And there's nothing totalitarian going on there, right?
Let me know if it poops batteries :-)
Erm, looks like I have to come out of my little well and see what's going on. :-)
I think I saw that a US city had a drone flying over people walking along a lake or something, that was telling them to keep their distance. And now this robot dog in Singapore.
As far as your question about things being worldwide, did your airport experience change after 9/11/2001, or was that just in the US?
Jon, I think it is a cultural thing. I know westerners are very conscious about their rights and freedom. It is slowly catching on here with the younger generation. But on the whole, we trust that what the government does is for the good of the people. All the cameras, the robots, the drones... they are necessary evil. We have nothing to hide, and the government won't be interested in us anyway.
I don't travel a lot. So, I can't really say or compare the before and after of 9/11. But I am sure all the necessary checks are in place. :-)
I’ll keep that in mind if I ever visit... and leave my chewing gum in the US, of course.
You obviously have misconceptions of Singapore. The only way to correct that is to spent a month or two here. You will leave with renewed opinions. You can bring all the gum you need. :-)
If I can ever get my wife my on a plane, I will definitely take you up on that offer. It's nice to know I have some friends there to show me around!
Excellent! You can start trying to convince her. 😊
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I might need to join the challenge
Please do. I am not a fan of challenges, but I like this very much. It's a 'free n easy' challenge. Take some pictures while you are out on your walk and share them - with a bit of narrative. And since I am taking walks everyday, and taking pictures ever so often, it's a 'challenge' right up my alley. :-)
What a wonderful post a bit of everything and i love that Komodo dragon , i saw them once in a park in Thailand they are a amazing reptile like a shrunken down Dinosaur.
Hi John, Thank you for taking a look, and you nice comment.
My pleasure you are welcome 😊
Howdy sir Vincent! I bet those dragons run like crazy when they see you coming. But then I guess little kids do too. lol.
They do. The komodo dragons, not the kids.
lol..right right right.