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A SPRINGTIME WALK AROUND THE CRESCENT...

A SPRINGTIME WALK AROUND THE CRESCENT… I live in an apartment.   Like everyone else, I have waited longingly for spring, seemingly so late in arriving this year.   My apartment faces the north-east, with a restful view of the gardens, mature trees and woods.   I get the morning sun until about 11:30 am, and so tend to rush out to soak in it on my balcony in the early morning.   In the afternoon, I have been drawn by the warmth of the sun and the blossoming trees to go out the front door of our building and walk in either direction around our street, which is a crescent, and on the larger street adjoined to it, and the nearby plaza occasionally.               One thing I have learned through being vehicleless these last few years is that on a bus or in a car you can miss everything.   On my first walk I almost tripped over a sidewalk crack, but suddenly saw and smelled some lovely wild roses.   I have also learned that someone else’s apple tree is also mine, since I can reach up t