Tuesday evening's walk fell short on two counts. We set out in search of "Traemor," a small development we discovered last year. For various reasons that will be expanded upon in a future post, Susan considers this the most desirable neighborhood in Winston-Salem. But we could not relocate it - that is, it clearly isn't where we think it is - and had to give up the search as darkness fell. Our dismay was compounded when we found that Path Tracker had utterly failed us and therefore we have no record of this walk: http://pathtracks.com/users/20444/paths/70433. Here are two observations from Wednesday morning. First, Summit School students have been meeting on the Wake Forest campus every Wednesday morning in April to walk together to Summit School. Admirable (and fun) as this is, these little walks highlight one of Winston-Salem's shortcomings - the lack of pedestrian crossings over or under its parkways. Almost all of the children meeting in a campus parking lot these Wednesday mornings live close enough to Summit to walk or bike to school, but cannot do so because there is no way they can safely cross Silas Creek Parkway. Second, the turtles of Lake Katherine were out basking in the sun in unusually large numbers around 9 AM Wednesday morning. But all but one of the more than a dozen I initially saw immediately dove back into the water the moment I left the path to take a photograph.
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