Walk around the Neighborhood

Journal #5: June 28, 2010

Topic: Walking Trip Around My Neighborhood

At least once a week I take a walking trip around my neighborhood.  Sometimes it’s to clear my mind, other times it’s to take pictures.  I love taking pictures of nature, and there’s always beautiful scenery to take pictures of.  There are so many beautiful flowers around, including the red hibiscus.  I found a purple flower (I don’t know the name of it) in our neighborhood, which is strange because you usually see red/pink/orange flowers and never really any purple/blue flowers.   I thought it was kind of interesting and unique.  Our neighborhood also has three large lakes, which are the home to several alligators.  I didn’t see any on this walk, but I’ve seen them many times before.  A few years ago they had to remove and kill one because kids were feeding it (apparently their parents said it was okay to do that).  At the time I didn’t care, but now that I’ve learned more about the environment and the behavior of alligators, it really saddened me.  I also saw some egrets by the front of our neighborhood, but I didn’t get a close enough look to see whether it was the Great Egret or the Snowy Egret.  I’m looking forward to going on another walk around my neighborhood in a month to look at our neighborhood through a “Colloquium Lens.”