Wednesday Walk: Flowers, Grasses and Solitude!

This day started with heavy rain and because it stayed that way for hours, I thought it would last for the whole day. Fortunately it didn't and I'm thankful for that. I was never fond of cold weather—especially rain because everything felt dreary if it was raining. The way the coldness dampens my mood just doesn't sit right especially since I have outdoor plans for that day. And during Wednesdays, I mostly have outdoor plans.

Since this month is technically our vacation, I plan to spend my Wednesdays exploring the grass field near our house. Honestly, that grass field was way lusher before, but then when a village got constructed near it really changed. It's kinda bad, but I know it's inevitable.

Ok, so before I get sentimental, today Wednesday I decided to start my plan for this month. I planned to spend time in the grassland picking small flowers that I could use for my DIY stickers. Also, I plan to spend some me-time there—you know just me, grass, and the silence. I've been yearning for that every week, and during the time I have class, I mostly do that me-time near the seawall.

Since I can't go there for now, I'll just have it in the grass field. Today is the first Wednesday in June, so after filing my application for DL, I proceeded to my walk. It was just a brief one—a barely half an hour walk—when I reached the grass field near our house.

I immediately found a spot on top of a small hill overlooking the open basketball field. It's still vacation time for both the grader and high school so there are a lot of children and teenagers playing there. After sitting, I prepared my notebook where I will press the small flowers that I'll gather. I put it on the grass along with my bag and stuff.

I was about to place my earphones on top of my notebook when I noticed something. It's a small grasshopper! It's so small that it looks like a blur against my phone's camera. It stayed for a while and after it hopped away. I'm in no hurry so I decided to eat first the chips I bought. I also watched anime while doing so!

After unconsciously procrastinating about what I'm supposed to do, I proceed to find small flowers. It wasn't that hard because there were really some of them just hiding among the tall grasses. And along with my flower hunting, I also caught some grasshoppers. Old habits die hard because grasshopper catching has been my fascination since I was a kid, and up until now I can't control myself but catch one when I see some of them jumping.

It's fun because they're really quick to jump if they sense you near them, so the trick is I distract them first. I kicked their hiding places and the moment they were distracted in escaping elsewhere when I grabbed them midair. Of 'course I don't keep them because after catching a few of them, I release them again.

Back to my flower hunting, I found some cute ones. I'm already familiar with these flowers, but I'm not good at naming what they really are. Perhaps I know some of their local names, but I'm not certain of their common names. Anyway, after gathering them, I immediately have them pressed against the pages of my notebook. I put some pressure while pressing it because I didn't want them to fall if I didn't.

Since it was almost dusk, I started to gather my stuff and head my way back home. The yellow bell is still in bloom, but unlike last week, the flowers are now fewer—nevertheless, they're still beautiful.

Since the rainy season is starting, the corn is starting to grow again. Unlike its barren appearance last month, it's already filled with growing corn. However, the small flowers that I hoped I would find aren't there anymore. Those tiny hyacinth-looking flowers aren't there anymore, maybe they were uprooted because they kinda look like weeds.

Anyway, they're still many cute flowers out there and I know they'll eventually regrow if its roots aren't uprooted fully. After all, it's always the weeds that are resilient and hard to kill, so yeah I can see them grow again soon.

And that's how my Wednesday walk ended and I hope my next Wednesday experience will be as nice as what happened to me today. What about you? How did you spend your Wednesday? Hopefully, yours was also nice :) Thanks for being with me up until here and see you on my next time!