Not Just Another Walk In the Park

NOT JUST ANOTHER WALK IN THE PARK After biscuits for breakfast at Mama’s Boy…an Athens, Georgia landmark we decided to walk off our calories with a stroll through Dudley Park. Dudley Park is a beautiful place…not huge by any scale…. It’s traversed by the North Oconee River just off the Firefly Trail. Of course the fireflies were sleeping…having long ago hit the hay but we wanted to see what wonders their trail wold reveal to us that day. Sure we missed the fireflies…who only light up in the dark but from high up in the trees we were treated to a free concert in the park. It was the dead of summer…but the morning felt like spring… and as we were cooled by a morning breeze…all around us birds began to sing. The bluebirds chirped…the cardinals whistled…again and again and again…. These were just the warm-up acts for the headliner…the Carolina wren. We walked among the green grass, the elm trees and mushrooms…. While all around us, wherever we looked, flowers were in bloom. Everywhere we turned…different flowers we would spot… From yellow jessamine, black eyed Susans, to the fragrant Bergamot. We happened upon a cluster of dayflowers…blessed to have seen them on our way because, as their name suggests, they bloom only for one day. The dayflower is just another indication of how life moves on so fast reminding us to enjoy every moment before it fades into the past. This is why every walk we take together… feels a little different than the walk before… Which means this wasn’t just another walk in a park for us… No… it was so much more.