The only dependable constant is that everything changes
With most people being on lock-down, the above statement seems to be even more obvious than it has been for most of my life. Especially when you look at the way nature is already beginning to take back a little bit of control in places where people have not been doing their usual level of keeping it in check.
If you've been reading my blog lately, you know that we've been scheduling walks to a local botanical garden which covers many acres of land on the outskirts of Los Angeles. It's gotten a bit overgrown, which is actually kind of nice.
One of the side effects of this has been that every time we go, it's as if we've never been before. In just a couple of weeks, some areas have become so overgrown that we get turned around and can't even figure out where we are at.
There have been several times during our walk that we've both stopped to get our bearings. On this particular trip, we were getting a bit warm and were ready to head toward the exit. Unfortunately, we ended up walking the wrong direction for about 30 minutes until we finally figured out where we were.
It was not so bad, though. I kept saying, "Hey, look! We've never been on this trail before." - but then I'd realize that we actually had been there after seeing some familiar landmark. It was good since it gave us a bit of a change of scenery... Or at least tricked us into thinking that it had.
Honestly, I feel like people try to prune back nature way more than necessary. I can understand that a little bit of care is necessary, but when we let nature do its thing, beautiful patterns begin to emerge on their own without any of our help.
My hope is that soon we'll be able to get back to some semblance of normality, but until then, I guess we'll have to just keep scheduling our little walks online and taking all the exercise appointments that we can get! It sounds funny even saying it out loud.