WALKING BY FAITH I KEEP CLIMBING

WALKING ON         Walking by homes and yards, I see the for-get-me-nots in the yards of some. When I lived in another place, I had a large lawn, in which I took these little plants  and put them into the grass to naturalize as part of the lawn.  Every Spring they would come up as lively little bright smiles of hope for the future.                 It has been a year since I last posted.    My revision hip surgery was successful.    The prognosis was that I would possibly be in the Nursing Home for 12 weeks.   I was in the Nursing Home for five weeks.    It amazes me that I am able to do what I can do.   With my walker, I am able to do many long distance things, such as going for a 40 minute walk - sitting and having coffee and soup in a little cafe, and then returning home to my place for another 40 minutes. And so, I am calling my walker CALEB.   ...

Walking By the Sea, where the gulls cry                           The trains travel by here in Blaine often.   Their tracks are down by the ocean edge, so no one sees the train go by unless they are opposite the bay.   I can watch the train if I walk across the street, and go near to the edge from where I view the train as it passes by.   The regularity of the wheels thumping along can be heard miles before they arrive.   The sound and the thumping begins and by the time the long horn sounds its arrival everyone can tell it is about to arrive.                             The gulls are beginning to cry some these days, calling to each other, but they for the most part are clustered in groups in trees and bushes where they stay out of the cold.   There is rain and warmer weather here in Blaine and Birch Bay than in Ce...