Madison

Dom ready to go

It has been so long since I did any of this walk. My knee has been getting worse and and worse and  in fact today was my longest walk in months, as this failed knee replacement is taking its toll on most other joints. Anyway today was a swell day, 70s, clear shies and- and-if only for a day-a great reminder what great spring days are like.

I was  going to Yale but at least minute change gave me a chance to  go for this walk, the goal being to go  further than I went last September. I had no map, no real plans and the plan was just going to dead reckon from the Madison RR station to down by the shore where I have been a few times on the bike.

After a cobb salad and chowda at Orourke's I parked at RR station

Madison RR Station

and took back roads to the green, cutting thru walks to and from this church

The Madison green is really nice and it was only green, but also yellow, as forsythia, daffodils, dandy lions and a new flower to me- were all over the place.

Madison Green

We did a short walk on busy Rte 1 and then West Wharf to the park, was tempted to go along the beach but had wrong shoes, so we followed the parking lots-a lot of  other folk were on the way to the shore this day too.

We found a nature sign, a sign indicating it was a Boy Scout Project that lead over this bridge to the other side of a marsh, to a series of ball fields.

Boardwalk across marsh

I saw another nature trail with blue blazes, we followed that to more fields that lead back to Rte 1.

It was on this last trail that I tripped over a little tiny cedar stump and let me tell you, when I trip on a root or  too small and  hard to see stump, it kills me. I doubled over on this nearby boulder wondering if I could walk more or maybe have to call 911 but it got better. Not that I need reaffirmation-to quote a good friend-but it was reminder of how things are.

The stump

Church on the green

We got back to Rte 1 and walked back. it was late afternoon traffic but still nice, cut thru the green and thru a garden walk near a Parson Graves house (don't quote me on name). It was nice to be back on this quest and I hope to do a few more legs of this walk before the surgery and hopefully do many many more after that.