Want to walk a couple miles in my shoes??? Come on along.

[Dan Murphy]

<b><embed src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//whistlework.mid" hidden=true autostart=TRUE height=0 width=0>About a year ago, I posted some pictures of this recreational lake, Lake Arlington,
near our home, where Marie and I walk (not together, I walk to fast, LOL) for a bit of exercise. 
Once around the lake is two miles.  Before I stopped last year, I was doing two laps, four miles.</b>
<p><b>We each started again for this year, Marie a bit earlier than me, I just
got going this past week.  One of the threads on the IB got me 'in gear'
again, always need that push, LOL.  I did the lake four times this week and
feel great getting back to it.</b></p>
<p><b>I thought I would bring my digital with yesterday, (have to practice for
my WDW in about two weeks, LOL) (plus I get 'itchy' if I don't post pictures
every so often, LOL)  I thought I would have you go the two miles around
with me.  It is still sort of pre-summer drab, but still nice.  Hope
you enjoy if you happen to stop by for a look.</b></p>

<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7685.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>

<p><b>The Lake Arlington sign welcomes you to a pretty and quiet
interlude.  In the summer, there are a lot of small sailing boats out and
make it very pretty and colorful.  Too early for that though, end of May
for those.</b></p>

<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/lake_arlington_mapl.jpg" width="212" height="212"></b></p>

<p><b>The lake is pictured above in blue (DUH).  The parking area is on the
left, in between the two doglegs.  We always start by going down around the
bottom dogleg, walking left to right on the map, then up, and then back, right
to left, around top dogleg, and back to field house and parking lot.  Full
circuit, 2 miles.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7677.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>When I walk, I have a CD player and always play the <i>Disney Millennium
Celebration</i> CD, always.  Anyone who has heard this one, will probably
agree it would be a good one to walk with.  I have listened to it so often
here, I would be lost without it, LOL.  </b></p>
<p><b>As I start my walk, I glance back at the field house, which has a nice
snack shop (now closed, still too early in the season) and restrooms. 
Throughout the park are scattered picnic tables and seating areas, plus a gazebo
or two.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7675.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Above and next picture are as I start into the first dogleg, looking back
to the length of the lake.  Huge boulder to my left in this one.  (Any
human looking shadow is me, not the Abominable Snowman)</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7676.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7644.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Now I am on bottom of first leg, again looking the length of the
lake.  Previous pictures were taken over in the upper left area. 
Notice grass is still blah looking.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7645.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Mom and pop ducks move out of my way and head for the lilac bushes.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7646.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>As I pass them, one of the homes surrounding the lake is a bit in view.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7647.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>These white blossomed bushes smell so very fragrant.  I think of one
of our DIS gardeners, DixieDreamer, when I pass them.  Hey, DblD, what are
these?  I know you will know.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7648.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Just some pretty trees as I come up on a sign post.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7649.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>I sure wish blooming trees and bushes held their blossoms longer than they
do, they are so pretty, and usually fragrant too.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7650.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>The park district has even put in a bird house on a pole, to protect and
encourage the smaller birds, what with all the ducks and geese there.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7652.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/lake_arlington_mapl.jpg" width="126" height="128"></b></p>
<p><b>About midway up the first mile, (the green area on the bottom) a baseball
field frequently provides an interlude of wildly cheering moms and dads, but
none yet today.  Wait, I do see a mom and her kid there.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/picture1.jpg" width="600" height="250"></b></p>
<p><b>Yep, (with a crop and zoom of software) a mom and her two kids, arrive
early for the game, a neighbor in the stands 'stakes out the best seat in the
house', LOL.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7653.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>I had to get off the walkway to go up on the grass to get this one, I knew
it would be pretty.  I am just about at the end of the first mile, ready to
go 'up' toward the second.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7658.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/lake_arlington_mapl.jpg" width="126" height="128"></b></p>
<p><b>Now I have made it up to the 'top', ready to start back, right to
left.  This picture looks up the length of the lake from that end.</b></p>
<p><b>(How many are REALLY bored now, LOL????  I am really reaching as I am
all out of Disney pictures to post.  Bear with me.)</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7660.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Okay, here we are, walking on the second mile, walkway stretching ahead.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7661.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Same area, just looking at he lake a bit more.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7662.jpg" width="337" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Again, stepped off the walkway to get a backlit picture of this tree with
still young spring leaves.  I am now walking west, into the sun, and some
interesting shadows are everywhere.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7663.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>These benches look so comfortable right now, but I forge ahead.  I
took this picture also for PandyPaws' son, Ryan, with his interest in
trashcans.  Not as nice as WDW, but a trashcan nonetheless.  A couple
is walking toward me (I actually took most of these pictures avoiding other
walkers, bladers and bikers, as they look at you strangely if you are standing
there, shooting pictures of them).  If I veered to the right here, (toward
the gazebo in the upper right) I would go off on another trail that goes through
the wooded area seen there.  I always go straight.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7664.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Had I gone right, I would go over the bridge and into the woods.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7665.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>I like to walk past the wood.  Here I walk parallel to them. 
There is a creek in there somewhere.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7666.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/lake_arlington_mapl.jpg" width="126" height="128"></b></p>
<p><b>I am coming up to about halfway along the second mile, about where the
green end on the top side, and these two geese are staking out there area.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7667.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>The field house, in the center, left of that top dogleg, is now in view,
setting sun glistening on the water.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7668.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Stepping off again, for a different perspective.   (If you are
still here, you are as hard up for pictures as I am, LOL.  Almost finished)</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7669.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>And a few more geese and ducks.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7670.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>These guys were keeping the grass short.  A nice row of yellow tulips
and purple flowers (Dbl D will help me out, same flowers at end of this post)
adds a nice touch along the prairie grass.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7671.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Like Donald, he had no pants on.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7672.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/lake_arlington_mapl.jpg" width="126" height="128"></b></p>
<p><b>Finally I am in the second dogleg, the top one, with the field house
across the water.  The boat docks are visible, awaiting the happy boaters
in a few more weeks.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7673.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Just about to round the end of the leg, a few more geese greet me.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7674.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Here, looking back from where I was, I am at the point of that second, top
leg, ready to end my walk in a moment or so.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7684.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>At the end of the walk, it says <font color="#FF0000">STOP</font>, and I
do.  Two miles complete, about 36 minutes.  Next week, maybe today, I
will try for two laps, four miles.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7679.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>At the end, and back at the field house, I check to see if any DIS'ers
were exiting restrooms (maybe I can catch Lady M someday, LOL), but none today.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7680.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>A look down at the boating area, not much going on yet.  The early
evening shadows are very apparent.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7681.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>And, to end this rather boring thread, I thought I would add a little
color for the DIS garden gang, Dbl D, Mamu, Amid Chaos, Snowwark, who else are the
big flower folks here?  A nice bedding of yellow tulips, some purple
flowers, ground cover and shrubs.  The snack shop is still closed till
Memorial Day weekend.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7682.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>What are these purple ones??  They sure were pretty.</b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://worldzone.net/travel/danmurphy//Lake_walk/dscn7683.jpg" width="600" height="450"></b></p>
<p><b>Ahhhhhh, spring!!!!!</b></p>
<p><b>Okay, who made it all the way to the end??  Hopefully I will have
some WDW photos in the near future, but thanks for bearing with me on this one,
LOL, and hope you enjoyed your cyber walk with me.  I enjoyed your company.</b></p>
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[Mamu]

Dan thanks for the stroll around Lake Arlinton. It always great to walk in the shadows of someone special.

 

[Snowwark]

What a lovely place to to get some exercise.

I notice that the lilacs are already in bloom. That's several weeks ahead of us in the "north".

The beautiful purple flowers in the bottom pics are Hyacinths, and they smell wonderful!

Whenever you get "itchy" to post some pics, we'd love to see them.

Thank you Dan!

Kim

 

[Tulirose]

Thanks Dan for posting these pictures. I certainly enjoyed joining you on your healthy walk around the beautiful lake. Thanks so much for inviting us along. Would love to tag along anytime.

 

[Yay2001]

Dan!

So happy to see you over here!!!

Lake Arlington area is so beautiful! The pink blossoming trees look almost like our state tree here in OK --(Redbud)

I LOVED this post, btw -- almost felt like I was there, walking along with you!

Thanks for sharing your little bit of paradise with us, Dan! Come back

 

[kathymc]

What - pictures from Dan and no Castle! No partner statue?
just kidding Dan - the pictures are lovely and what a nice place for a walk!