Walking Around the Lake
Yes, denizens, Tucson has lakes. They are not Lake Michigan size lakes, but they have water and boundaries and signs that designate them as such. I walked around one today. I walked all the way around, on pavement for a while and then on hard packed desert soil.... dirt... solid enough to repel a trowel, with a dusting of soft small granules and larger, trip-inducing pebbles and stones and rocks. The wild flowers are beginning to sprout, and there are low clusters of leaves, gathered like old friends meeting up at their favorite spots again, now that the weather is right. It hasn't rained very much this winter, but that doesn't seem to have impeded their progress... the way they impeded mine this morning. I didn't want to step on them, they were too wide to step over, and moving laterally is a skill I've yet to full master. I smiled as I problem-solved. A year ago, I could not have done this walk. We parked our cars with one space between them, eve...