Weekly Ephemera #122

A fairly slow week for me this week.

• The leaves dropped from our oak tree so I put up the Christmas ornaments.  The Wife decorated the inside of the house including putting the ornaments on the Christmas tree.
• I walked three times this week.  It's been a bit since I did more than two walks in a week.  I walked for a total of 32.0 miles (51.6 km).
  
  

  

  A giant chair if a giant happens to be walking the Wabash Trace.

  The third hike on Friday was a return to the Wabash Trace.  It was nice to get back out in nature away from the sidewalks and city streets.  Back in 2009-2010 I stage hiked the whole sixty-three miles of the trace.  Maybe I'll have to revisit those hikes to see how things have changed.  The trace has several different styles of benches along the way.  I found one old conventional bench in an odd location.  Instead of facing the main trail it was twenty feet off facing away.  The bench was old, had "The AᐧBᐧC Bench" carved into it, was damaged a bit, and probably had been there for a while.  At one time it faced a green valley lined with trees and would have been a nice view.  Over the years some trees have grown to obscure the view a bit.   I think there probably is a story attached to that bench.

  

  The AᐧBᐧC Bench.

  If you want to see pictures I've taken along the Wabash Trace check out my 2009-2024 Wabash Trace Nature Trail Hike Google Photos album.
• I finished "Arcane" this week.  I really, really, really enjoyed it.  I was hoping for a third season but two seems to be it.  Worth the watch.
• Also really liking Bluesky.  Wish it was truly federated but it is active and fairly civil so far.