This tree is from my past. I took this picture in April, 2016, along a street a few blocks north from my apartment in Ilsan, Korea. It’s along the main route I would take to walk to the cancer center, along the western edge of Jeongbalsan Park. The pink paper lanterns hanging on the trees are part of the celebration of Buddhamas (Buddha’s birthday), a normal springtime holiday generally falling in April or May.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Our neighbors-down-the-road, Mike and Penny, have a dog named Maya. Maya is a very energetic young malamute. Yesterday when I was at work, Penny came into the gift shop and reported that Mike had had an incident while walking the dog, and had fallen down and because of that, was now unable to walk the dog. Penny described a dog desperate for dogwalking.
Now that I am not working so much on my treehouse project – which was a lot of physical labor and excellent exercise – I think I need to start walking more. So I volunteered to walk down to Mike and Penny’s house and take the dog on a walk. What better morning for a neighborly dogwalk than one coated in fresh-fallen snow? I walked down to their house, collected the dog, walked with her back up to our house and back down to their house again, then walked back home. Total, about 5km just for that.
Here are some pictures from my long dogwalk.
ㅁ When I woke up, now, I went out and walked, predawn. Stars and snow made light.
– a pseudo-haiku
