I may be getting rested; I'm starting to feel a little antsy to be doing something. Nevertheless, we managed to avoid doing much again today. We cleared a few fallen branches off the drive to Ester's shop, and I took a different 4 mile walk. There was only a half-mile of overlap with yesterday's route.
She lives in some serious farm country. Farms in full summer can make lovely scenes.
![farm scene](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KAKBqehf_6BVnapVUAsAn2nDrOxyCQpujMq-yhRFuMjMupn3BmOwThQw3XcsgGsQTa8H6Q_uRvxaiwUnFPQLSFngIyrUfRCxRSB5lo7LeMp7tYm0wAXEuCBG2f-Na_O75P8L7Tb8Nck/s280/Pastoral03.jpg)
And one of the roads was picture perfect.
![road with trees shading it](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLkEo5R7hpmJSuxWAhC9wI1zOb1IdKbokfiFUEavXVKdnVYvf-ZjTFfDwLlMqCcXN5ityMFZEfO9ceITLkWgTMqDpDvAoThATAQchDXHRB2r9aYnJAIi3ddVr6f2AShkhoksynIFQBuqI/s280/AirlineRoadSturgis01.jpg)
I'm pretty sure this is a juvenile red-tail hawk. It flew into the tree, and I tried to snap a picture. Caught it, but not a great shot!
![juvenile red-tail hawk](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizYrwThWYKLujAlG8nBHLGdDvVl4iXl-hqE-t65R1G9A7hpmDkV7qQaMFpH8nboykKKbIGpobnWWqo8S2ZW-WKEJf7rmvFwXfrDDouk9uwdYK8yv3cmMfJ59-nzcK7wnJ5r56ibNcXiM/s280/RedtailHawk31.jpg)
Passed by Thompson Lake. Lots of cottages on the side where I was.
![Thompson Lake](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8_rL_R2pGLirOzFN7QC72m48MBpK6yGwWLeAEm0ZxPkz2IgzNCyMSjChJ49M6rMx3tYy5v_3LmRQhJ0PqlSS5h5LVixoR4thy6yIFENVfGQewATmywUWGZQU_ZDuv6NEPry__Aj5wEs/s280/ThompsonLake01.jpg)
And in that final overlap from yesterday, I saw the same pony. No longer hitched to the cart, it trotted over to the fence and wanted to say hello, but I wasn't going into the poison ivy to pet it. I just talked to it. Lovely temperature, slight breeze.
![pony](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQ5ADtDqgUTx7Tx-A55Iw8vPyC79bD-KooO14U02m_Lm0skU_cWTM8JSpr0XYbTxMouJUPq1GfMzHAXaRWmGay2fSJq7HoDViGNZxhq0vzMXBGb5Splti66kbsCduSaTYhIeiyNDt-i8/s280/Pony01.jpg)
I think we have a plan for tomorrow. Ester and I, not the pony and I!
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What a beautiful area Ester lives in.
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