Blooming Beautiful!

Boise is blooming!  I want to sing praises and give thanks every day as I drive around town. All of the trees are BEAUTIFUL!  The flowering pear are my favorite and you can't beat a drive down Harrison Blvd. (How do you spell that?), but here are a few more favorites:

• Timberline High School parking lot (all pink and white)
• McDonald's on Vista and Kootenai (thick, heavy, dark pink branches)
• Apartments on Boise Avenue right after Leadville (same as above)
• The Bunn's house on the corner of Constitution and the cul de sac (flowering pear)
• Lake Forest Drive by the soccer fields (mixture of pink blossoms and evergreens)

I wish I had pictures of them all.  I did take this pic of the tree right outside my classroom window.  I get to look at it all day.

 

Go For a Walk

Terry and I are out of the habit of our early morning walk.  We ride the stationary bike, do yoga videos, and follow exercises with weights from a Fit for Fifty program, but we haven't been getting out at 5:15 for an early morning 2 miles.  I miss it.

This morning we drove down to Bown Crossing and parked.  We walked across the Park Center Bridge and went for a walk along the Greenbelt.  It was glorious.  The weather was perfect and everything was coming to life.  We're just on the edge of spring.  We saw red-winged black birds, hawks, a woodpecker, and a rabbit.  I wish we could have walked on and on, but we had to get something else done on Saturday.  After spring break I'm going to push for our early morning walks again - and every Saturday, I want to be on the Greenbelt.

My walking partner looks a lot better than me in the morning.

So cute!  The click of the camera made him scamper away.