I originally planned on “retiring” the first of the year but I’ve ended up pushing that date into the second quarter of 2016. There’s really not that much difference at this point between being retired or not and what I’ve been doing is trying to go for a walk in the woods each day for 40 minutes to an hour, sometimes much longer than an hour. I can plan my walks so there are different types of “workouts” depending on the grades.

Sometimes I stay on our property. Sometimes I wander further south into property that partially borders ours that has come up for sale (250+ acres if anyone is interested).

A few days ago I took along a camera and here are photos, most without commentary.

This is Christmas Fern which generally stays green well into the new year. Some years we’ve seen green fronds peeking out from deep snow. No snow so far this year.

This is a tree stump that has almost entirely deteriorated into fragments of wood with moss decorations.

The day was extremely overcast.

I took a lot of photos of this cut section of an oak log.