[1] Another Trip Around the Sun

(Norristown Farm Park -- Grassland and Old Stable from Atop a Pile of Hay Bales)

Date: 9/12/17

Nearing the end of another long Pennsylvania Summer. Nowadays, when the weather is nice, I like to hike around my local Farm Park and find a quiet place to read my books. There's no better place to read than out under the sun. In my youth, my parents would bring me here to ride my bike. I remember the time I lost control of the steering and wrecked on the blacktop at the bottom of the big hill. My legs were so bloody and sore my Mom carried me all the way back to the car as I clung to her shoulders trying not to cry from the pain and embarrassment. To this day, I shake my head and smile every time I walk past that infamous hill and the spot where we hid my mangled bike. Like a brother, through good times and bad, I'll always love all the time I've spent here, walking along the mile-wide fields of corn, weathered grain mills, tall wild-grass meadows, and forgotten farm stables.

(Norristown Farm Park -- Main Trail)

(Norristown Farm Park -- Main Trail through some Trees)

(Norristown Farm Park -- Creekside)

(Norristown Farm Park -- Reading By The Creek)

(Norristown Farm Park -- Old Grain Mill)

(Norristown Farm Park -- Inviting Pile of Hay Bales)

(Norristown Farm Park -- Fields of Corn from Atop the Hay Bales)