July 25, Wellington and environs

Because  Offa's Dyke (minus a couple of stages) and the Shropshire Way (probably  minus one stage due to taxi issues) were not enough, I had to add the Telford T 50, which, guess what, is 50 miles long...but not all the stages of the Telford T50 because some of them overlap with the Shropshire Way.  Anyway, today I did three of those stages: A circular walk around Wellington (beautiful), then south to Horsehay (pretty nice), and, for the finale, five and change more miles to Oakengates...where I was glad to be done because it got hot.  Bus back to Wellington.   I never know how many miles I REALLY walk because my watch is not a good recorder, but this collection of routes add up to about 16 but easy on the hills. 

It is a huge relief to walk on overpasses above roads like these:

But it is ever so lovely to walk down an aisle, between trees who seem like soldiers at arms:

I should put something like this on my garbage can:

Is this a great tree identifier sign, or what!

There were some stone chairs with a marine (or is that a baseball glove?) theme:

A big patch of pink flowers on an island:

Shy (or itchy)  (or tired) swans, also in the water!

Fat geese not in the water:

Still sour, desafortunadamente:

But working on ripening.

Bad drivers just have to go somewhere else:

Way marking is surprisingly good for a local path, but when you get to a junction where the streets are named: Hardshell Street, Hardshell Avenue, and Hardshell, it kind of throws you off. 

All in all it was a pleasant day of walking and surprisingly off road for most of it.