One good thing about walking is you have the time to take in the details of your surroundings. One of the trails I like to use goes by certain trees that I know will be a visual marvel. Maybe in a different age, I'd be considered a hippie nature lover, sort of a Jerry Garcia type. There is this one tree that each October turns a brilliant red. I don't know its name, but I know it's the best of the colorful bunch. So, I always keep an eye on it, anticipating its explosion of red. But it only lasts for a few days, so I have to look fast. And I always do. I don't know who owns the tree, but my hope is they don't take a notion to cut it down. That would be a shame.

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Ask the Dice