I was wondering if the #wednesdaywalk initiative by 
Anyways, a recent walk inspired me to make a #wednesdaywalk post in this community myself again too. It wasn't done on a Wednesday (it was last Monday), but this is allowed by the 'rules' of the community. And I do post it on a Wednesday as asked.
Monday I was working from home. Since I miss my commuting rides to the office I always try to find some time to stretch my legs and catch some fresh air during my lunch break.
Luckily I'm living in an urban area with some nice parks close by, so I can walk in a somewhat natural environment. The parks aren't big, green does good, even when it isn't big forest.
I visit the park I went for a walk frequently and although it's not that big in size, it's never boring. The park transforms all year round with the different seasons. At the moment, in spring, it's the most beautiful I think. It's overwhelmingly green and has a lot of flowers as you will notice in this blog.
As you can see on the image below, the leaves are slowly forming a closed roof over the paths.
On some spots the sun does get through, but that won't be for long. In a few weeks it will be a solid green roof. During hot summer days this park is a great place to go for a walk to cool off.
If you walk from the street into the forest in the summer, you really notice how much heat stones retain. We really need more green spaces in urban areas to cool cities down now the earth is warming up.
On the ground you can find some other colors than green. There are a lot of wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) spread out in the park. They are in a couple of different colors; white, pink and purple ones like these.
Up close they just look like little clocks and they grow all around the park. They close at night and in cloudy weather to protect themselves and they contain toxic compounds so they aren’t safe to eat (I wasn't planning to either).
In the middle of the park there are some rhododendrons. I really love rhododendrons. These have such bright colors and the patterns on the leaves and the curly petals are cool too. I had one in my backyard too, but it didn't survive after I had moved it into what I thought was a better spot of my garden. They are quite demanding shrubs. They prefer acidic, well-drained soil. And although I tried to make it happy, it died. I'm not going to give it another try by buying another one though. They are quite expensive and grow really slow. I have find another shrub to fill 'the gap' I have now.
And a bit further on there are quite a lot of these yellow flowers. ChatGPT tells me these are probably leopard’s banes; a flower in the daisy family (which seems likely to me).
These flowers spread mostly through underground rhizomes (horizontal root-like stems). It's nice to see fields of flowers spread out over the years. Every year there are more and more of them, making the park more colorful in spring.
Well, this was it for my #wednesdaywalk post. I hope you liked it.
I'm cuurious how others are experiencing spring in their area. Feel free to share it in the comments.
