On this first Sunday of the 2022 version of April, it was back to Lucy Park I ventured today, to get myself some aerobically acquired endorphins via fast walking the Lucy Park backwoods.
With the temperature in the 80s, Lucy Park had a lot of visitors today.
Picnickers, disc golfers, bikers, walkers, scooters, baby carriage pushers, and me.
That is the Wichita River you see above, flowing with extra water due to recent sky drippage. When that happens, the river returns to its preferred reddish brown color.
Green is sprouting out all over. On the ground, leaves in the trees and underbrush. Soon the scene above will look like a jungle, with passage through not so easy. That and then one has to be on the lookout for snakes.
Coming out of the Lucy Park backwoods, at the bottom of a bluff on which the Lucy Park Japanese Pagoda sits, the Pagoda looks taller than when you look at it at its own level.
I still have not learned, despite years of inquiring, the story behind why this Pagoda is in Lucy Park.
Soon after passing the Lucy Park Pagoda I came up this display of yellow wildflowers coloring up the landscape.
I read, a couple days ago, in the monthly Tandy Hills online newsletter, that the Tandy Hills wildflowers are tardy. Usually by this time of the year the hills are alive with a cacophony of color.
It is speculated that this past odd winter, with its many high and lows, has confused the foliage, not knowing if it safe to sprout, or is yet one more Arctic Blast going to arrive.
That cycle of HOT and cold continues. Today we are in the 80s. A cold front arrives in a few hours, with rain and likely thunderstorms, with the temperature high only in the 60s.
With rain likely falling tomorrow I don't know where I will get my daily endorphin dose...
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