We had a pleasant day today. Started off a bit frustrated, but then 3 cemeteries and a wood walk finished it off nicely!
Had breakfast again around 8 and then headed off to the Ridgeway Memorial Park as there is a virtual purple unicorn hovering over it. However, we got a little sidetracked with other groups of virtuals on the way, including one that was supposed to be a puppy. Way too big and placed over inaccessible fields (with long-horn cattle in them) and no roads to access the rest of it, so we gave up and carried on to Ridgeway. Very ordered with named roads running through it. A lot of family plots with large named headstones in the middle of their area and then the smaller individual headstones around them flat on the ground. Another munzee hunter, bobd caught up with us there and told us of yet another virtual garden! We will see about getting to it sometime over the next couple of days maybe! From there we visited the Pecan Grove Historical Cemetery. This was very peaceful and lots of old graves. Then at the back of it was the Ross Cemetery, which was a private one, but we had a walk through that, it was unkempt but once again peaceful.
Back to the motel for a sandwich and headed out to the McKinney Towne Park for yet another virtual garden. We walked around the largish lake, talked to the geese, and enjoyed the surroundings. Then we headed down the back and the woods, found a trail down the side of the highway for a little while, and then discovered a nature trail through the centre. The first wooded area we traipsed through was an open area with grass, weeds, and lots of spring flowers. Masses of grape hyacinths making the distance blue, violets (white ones as well) wood anemones, multi-headed daisies, and lots of small blue, pink and white flowers all throughout. Every step we took disturbed a multitude of crane flies, it was a great walk. Then we headed into the woods following more of the nature trail. We couldn’t get far though, too much water still on the ground from the rains a couple of weeks ago. There was however another entrance to the circular trail so we followed that almost all the way round until once again stopped by water. We did get to the other side of the wet patch on the first trail and then turned round and back to the beginning again. Lots of birds in the trees and even a bright red cardinal, he’s the spot the bird picture! Squirrels scrambling up trees, but not much else. Back here again for another late dinner. Last night here, we move onto Arlington tomorrow for 3 nights as it’s closer to the airport and makes life easier, no stressing about being late! So far we have driven 2012 miles = 3,238 kms and walked about 205 kms.
